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APT groups chain VPN and Windows Zerologon bugs to attack US government networks

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a joint security alert to warn of attackers combining VPN and Windows Zerologon flaws to target government networks.

According to government experts, the attacks aimed at federal and state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) government networks, the agencies also reported attacks against non-government networks.

The alert didn’t provide details about the attackers, it only classify them as “advanced persistent threat (APT) actors, a circumstance that suggests the involvement of state-sponsored hackers.

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