U.S., Britain warn of Russian cyberattacks in rare joint alert

Cybersecurity officials from the United States and Britain issued a rare joint technical alert Monday, accusing Russia of engaging in malicious activity to support espionage or steal intellectual property.


The alert is a response to attacks that have targeted millions of private and government computer networks worldwide -- through equipment like routers, switches and firewalls, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FBI and Britain's National Cyber Security Centre said in a joint statement.

"FBI has high confidence that Russian state-sponsored cyber actors are using compromised routers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks to support espionage, extract intellectual property, maintain persistent access to victim networks, and potentially lay a foundation for future offensive operations," the alert states.
  (UPI)
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