If you run security for a hospital system, a bank, a college, or a manufacturer, a new government advisory deserves ten minutes this week.
On July 13, NSA, CISA, FBI, and DC3, joined by partners across the Five Eyes and Europe, released "Improve Router Hygiene to Protect Against Russian State-Sponsored Targeting" (AA26-194A). It documents a decade-plus campaign by Russia's FSB Center 16 against networking devices. The sectors it names as most at risk are financial services, healthcare and public health, energy, communications, the defense industrial base, and government, especially at the state and local levels.
