While stalking its target, GruesomeLarch performed credential-stuffing attacks that compromised the passwords of several accounts on a web service platform used by the organization's employees. Two-factor authentication enforced on the platform, however, prevented the attackers from compromising the accounts.

In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street.

Fi network in the US by hijacking a device in a building across the street—all without leaving Russia.Cybersecurity vendor Volexity today documented the rare hacking technique, dubbed the "Nearest Neighbor Attack.

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.