An international advisory says that the purpose of the “brute force” attacks is to sell the info to cybercrime forums.

The targets of Fancy Bear's brute force attacks include both government agencies and the private sector, the advisory alleges.

With a vaccine still many months away, organizations doing coronavirus research will continue to find themselves in the crosshairs of spies.

Given that the group has been linked with data-wiping hacks in the past, the new activity has analysts’ full attention.

The unsophisticated technique gave the intruders access to two corporate drives for a “limited number of days,” Citrix's president says.