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4 days agoUS 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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