How To Crack A Router For Username and Password (We will be using Brutus to crack a D-Link route.) 1.When we want to access our router,it will be password protected.We can try the default username and password. As you can see,it is password protected. 2. We will open up our Brutus. 3.Configure Brutus.Put the target as the router's IP address.Put in the userlist and the passlist.After everything is OK,press on START. As you can see from the picture above, Brutus is cracking the router. 4.Wait for Brutus to finish cracking the router.You will get this result. You can see that I have get my username and password for the router. 5.Go to the page and type in the username and password.