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

Bill Toulas reports: 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.’ The threat actor pivoted to the target after first compromising an organization in a nearby building within the WiFi range. The attack…

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