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fromThe Hacker News
2 weeks ago

Turla Turns Kazuar Backdoor Into Modular P2P Botnet for Persistent Access

Turla’s Kazuar backdoor has been upgraded into a modular P2P botnet for stealthy, persistent access and flexible tasking on compromised hosts.
fromTheregister
8 months ago

US puts $10M bounty on Russians accused of infra attacks

The US State Department has put a $10 million bounty on the heads of three Russians accused of being intelligence agents hacking America's critical infrastructure - primarily via old Cisco kit, it seems. The alert directly connects them to reports of the Russian Federal Security Service's (FSB) Center 16 - aka Berserk Bear - accused of using a flaw (CVE-2018-0171) Cisco patched in 2018, but attackers recently exploited it in the Salt Typhoon hacking campaign,
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fromThe Hacker News
9 months ago

FBI Warns FSB-Linked Hackers Exploiting Unpatched Cisco Devices for Cyber Espionage

Russian FSB-linked group Static Tundra exploits CVE-2018-0171 in Cisco Smart Install to gain persistent access to strategic networks worldwide.
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