Thursday, 1 July 2021 (YJC) _ The intelligence services of the United States and the United Kingdom issued a joint advisory claiming the alleged devious hacking activities of Russia's GRU military intelligence.
The intelligence services of the United States and the United Kingdom issued a joint advisory on Thursday about the alleged devious hacking activities of Russia's GRU military intelligence, which they suggest constitutes a "global" "brute force" campaign.
"The National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released a Cybersecurity Advisory today exposing malicious cyber activities by Russian military intelligence against US and global organisations, starting from mid-2019 and likely ongoing," a press release accompanying the advisory says.
The 8-page document of technical guidelines goes into detail about the methods allegedly used by the GRU for its criminal cyber operations, suggesting the GRU's cyber division has "targeted hundreds of US and foreign organizations using brute force access to penetrate government and private sector victim networks."
The document also warns that the campaign is "almost certainly ongoing," and that actors in the US and Europe are the primary targets -among them government agencies and militaries, defence contractors, energy firms, education and logistics organizations, law firms, media, political parties and think tanks.
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