UK and Allies urge critical sectors to improve defences against Russian intelligence targeting
New advisory highlights Russian state cyber actors’ global exploitation of poorly configured routers
Organisations in critical infrastructure sectors are being supported to better understand and defend against malicious activity, as the UK and international partners today call out techniques used by Russian Intelligence Services
Alongside 18 agencies from 12 countries, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – a part of GCHQ – has published a new advisory highlighting the methods of Federal Security Service (FSB) Centre 16 cyber actors, who are exploiting vulnerable routers and opportunistically targeting networks belonging to critical national infrastructure (CNI) globally.
Sectors most at risk from this global targeting, including communications, defence, energy, financial services, government and healthcare, are subsequently being urged to take action. This includes recommendations to use SNMPv3 and disable legacy SNMP versions, implement strong and unique passwords for network devices, and restrict access to management protocols through appropriate access controls.
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