Bill Toulas reports:
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.”
The threat actor pivoted to the target after first compromising an organization in a nearby building within the WiFi range.
The attack was discovered on February 4, 2022, when cybersecurity company Volexity detected a server compromise at a customer site in Washington, DC that was doing Ukrainian-related work.
Read more at Bleeping Computer.