The trio of Russian hackers will probably find out who their friends really are. The US Department of State has announced an award of $ 10 million for information about hackers who “conducted malicious cybernetic activities against American critical infrastructure on behalf of the Russian government,” through the program of justice awards.
The alleged hackers are Marat Valeryevich Tyukov, Michail Michhailovich Gavrilov and Pavel Aleksandrovich Akulovof. Department of State he said WX Post by announcing that the trio are officers in the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), who “aimed at over 500 foreign companies in 135 other countries.”
Do you see “2018” in this identifier? This is not a random identity proof – this means that the susceptibility was publicly disclosed seven years ago. Cisco issued a patch in the same year, so even if organizations exploit elderly equipment that cannot be updated to recent software, they had almost a decade to buy recent equipment that has no effect on this defect.
Post of the State Department at X provided additional details about the transmission of information about Tyukov, Gavrilov and Akulovof via Tor. Similar awards – some related to “malicious cybernetic activity”, others related to the kidnapping, terrorism and the vocabulary of “North Korea” – may be found as rewards for justice website.
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