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The malware helped them exfiltrate sensitive data and login credentials, a report fromMicrosoftThreat Intelligence has claimed.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-38028, was discovered in 2022, and patched in October the same year.

Russia

Et bilde av et tastatur der Enter-knappen har påmalt et russisk flagg, med en liten gullbjørn stående på tasten.

Fancy Bear is probably Russias most popular threat actor.

In mid-February this year, US law enforcement agents successfully shut down a malicious Fancy Bear botnet.

This group targeted routers with factory tweaks and otherwise easy-to-guess passwords to implement the malware.

ViaThe Register

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