Russian state hackers APT28 (Fancy Bear/Forest Blizzard/Sofacy) breached a U.S. company through its enterprise WiFi network while being thousands of miles away, by leveraging a novel technique called "nearest neighbor attack." [...]

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Hackers breach US firm over Wi-Fi from Russia in 'Nearest Neighbor Attack'

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Researchers detail a “nearest neighbor attack” by Russia's APT28, which remotely breached a target's Wi-Fi by hijacking a laptop in a building across the street

Multi-factor authentication does not protect if not all access points are equipped with it – a US company had to learn this from APT28.

Multi-Faktor-Authentifizierung schützt nicht, wenn nicht alle Zugänge damit versehen sind – das musste ein US-Unternehmen durch APT28 lernen.

US-Firma über benachbarte WLAN-Geräte Dritter angegriffen

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US company attacked via neighboring third-party WLAN devices

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Russian hackers have devised a highly sophisticated method of breaching Wi-Fi networks from afar that researchers have dubbed the "nearest neighbor attack," as it allows hackers to infiltrate target networks without physically approaching the premises.Read Entire Article

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Novel Russian hacking method daisy chains Wi-Fi networks to reach intended target

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Volexity details Russia's novel 'Nearest Neighbor Attack'

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Russian APT GruesomeLarch deployed a new attack technique leveraging Wi-Fi networks in close proximity to the intended target.
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The Nearest Neighbor Attack: How A Russian APT Weaponized Nearby Wi-Fi Networks for Covert Access

SAN FRANCISCO – For determined hackers, sitting in a car outside a target’s building and using radio equipment to breach its Wi-Fi network has long been an effective but risky technique. These risks became all too clear when spies working for Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency were caught red-handed on a city street in the Netherlands in 2018 using an antenna hidden in their car’s trunk to try to hack into the Wi-Fi of the Organization fo…

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Russians Use "Nearest Neighbor Attack" To Spy On US, Other Adversaries

Russian state hackers APT28 (Fancy Bear/Forest Blizzard/Sofacy) breached a U.S. company thro

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Russian state-sponsored hacking group GruesomeLarch (also known as APT28 or Fancy Bear) has demonstrated a sophisticated new attack technique dubbed the “Nearest Neighbor Attack,” which allows remote hackers to breach organizations by exploiting Wi-Fi networks of neighboring businesses. This novel technique allowed hackers to breach an organization’s network from thousands of miles away without malware and by exploiting the Wi-Fi networks of nea…

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Hackers Breach Organizations via Wi-Fi from Russia

Recent research has revealed that a Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) group, tracked as “GruesomeLarch” (also known as APT28, Fancy Bear, or Forest Blizzard), has unveiled a novel attack technique dubbed the “Nearest Neighbor Attack.” Leveraging compromised Wi-Fi networks close to their intended victim, the group orchestrated a sophisticated breach that highlighted a new frontier […] The post Nearest Neighbor Attacks: Russian APT Hack The…

Hackers breach US firm over Wi-Fi from Russia in 'Nearest Neighbor Attack'

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