{"id":37261,"date":"2021-07-01T18:52:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T01:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37261"},"modified":"2021-07-01T18:52:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T01:52:57","slug":"us-uk-agencies-warn-of-russian-hackers-using-brute-force-to-target-hundreds-of-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37261","title":{"rendered":"US, UK agencies warn of Russian hackers using &#8216;brute force&#8217; to target hundreds of groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of top agencies in the United States and United Kingdom on Thursday warned of an ongoing campaign by Russian government-backed hackers using \u201cbrute force\u201d hacking techniques to target hundreds of organizations around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI, the National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the U.K.\u2019s National Cyber Security Centre issued a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/nkkjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqyyywrw_omktwwjzjdtlzwtrrzfw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/nkkjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqyyywrw_omktwwjzjdtlzwtrrzfw.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1625267352325000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEyJaSBFbG8uNqtPfelWb-_FZQiKA\">joint advisory<\/a>\u00a0outlining the hacking campaign, ongoing since 2019 and carried out by the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU).<\/p>\n<p>The GRU, an advanced persistent threat organization, has used what the agencies described as \u201cbrute force access attempts\u201d against the targeted organizations over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>The hundreds of organizations targeted include government and military agencies, political groups, think tanks, defense contractors, energy companies, logistics companies, media outlets, law firms and higher education institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The new advisory was issued on the heels of escalating cyberattacks on critical U.S. organizations either linked to the Russian government or to Russian-speaking cyber criminals likely being harbored by the nation, raising U.S.-Russian tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of top agencies in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37262,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37261\/revisions\/37262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}