Russia’s APT28 cyber-espionage group linked to ‘Nearest Neighbor Attack’ Victim’s Wi-Fi network was protected, but its neighbor’s wasn’t Timing aligns with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 Russian cyber-espionage group APT28,

Russian group APT28 conducted a Nearest Neighbor Attack, hacking into the building across the street from the victim for a Wi-Fi attack.

While stalking its target, GruesomeLarch performed credential-stuffing attacks that compromised the passwords of several accounts on a web service platform used by the organization's employees. Two-factor authentication enforced on the platform, however, prevented the attackers from compromising the accounts.

In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street.

Russian hackers compromised two different organization to attack the network of a third firm located across the road via Wi-Fi.

Russian hackers have devised a highly sophisticated method of breaching Wi-Fi networks from afar that researchers have dubbed the "nearest neighbor attack," as it allows hackers

A Russian cyberespionage group hacked a Washington, D.C.-based organization focused on Ukraine by deploying a new attack technique that exploits Wi-Fi connectivity,

Russian state hackers APT28 (Fancy Bear/Forest Blizzard/Sofacy) breached a U.S. company through its enterprise WiFi network while being thousands of miles away, by leveraging a novel technique called "nearest neighbor attack.