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Russian Government-Sponsored Activity Targets Poorly Configured and Vulnerable Devices Across Critical Sectors Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Center 16 cyber actors continue to exploit poorly configured and vulnerable networking devices worldwide, opportunistically compromising multiple critical infrastructure sector networks. This joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) builds on FBI’s Russian Government Cyber Actors Targeting Networking Devices, Critical Infrastructure Public Service Announcement of the decade-plus FSB Center 16 cyber activity by providing additional tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to enable defenders to more fully understand and counter the threat. [ 1 ] This CSA is being released by the following authoring and co-sealing agencies: Communications Security Establishment Canada’s (CSE’s) Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) Czech Republic National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NÚKIB) 1 The authoring and co-sealing agencies strongly urge device owners and network defenders to take mitigation and remediation actions against Russian government-sponsored exploitation of vulnerable routers. Download the PDF version of this report: Cybersecurity industry tracking The cybersecurity industry provides overlapping cyber threat intelligence, indicators of compromise (IOCs), and mitigation recommendations related to this activity.