New Developments In the days since the U.S. Secret Service announced its dismantling of a clandestine telecommunications threat in New York, additional reporting has clarified both the scale of the operation and the range of risks that were present. The seizure occurred during the United Nations General Assembly, when more than 150 world leaders and senior U.S. officials were in New York. The over 300 SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards, concentrated within a 35-mile radius of the UN complex,…
Category: Featured
Russian APT’s “Nearest Neighbor Attack” Reveals Critical Security Gap: An Organization’s Wireless Airspace
"Your network perimeter probably just got a bit wider." Brian Krebs, KrebsOnSecurity.com, November 23rd, 2024 A groundbreaking investigation released November 22, 2024, by Volexity details an alarming new attack vector dubbed the "Nearest Neighbor Attack." This sophisticated technique allowed Russian state-sponsored attackers to breach a highly fortified target’s network, not by targeting it directly, but by taking control of the wireless networking devices of adjacent companies in buildings within the transmitting range of their target. The Attack Timeline In February…