Russian Military Hackers Have Been On a Worldwide Password Guessing Spree Gizmodo 4 hrs ago © Photo: OZAN KOSE / AFP (Getty Images)
An elite team of hackers connected to Russian military intelligence have been using brute force attacks to target hundreds of organizations throughout the world, according to officials with U.S. and U.K. security agencies.
A joint advisory published Thursday says that the military unit 26165, also known by its moniker “Fancy Bear,” has been conducting “widespread, distributed, and anonymized brute force access attempts against hundreds of government and private sector targets.” Those targets have apparently included a wide array of military organizations, defense contractors, energy companies, political parties and consultants, media companies and more.
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