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US puts $10M bounty on three Russians accused of attacking critical infrastructure

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
90/100

Date Published: 2025-09-04

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Iain Thomson

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The US State Department announced a $10 million bounty for three alleged FSB Center 16 (Berserk Bear) operatives accused of exploiting the Cisco Smart Install CVE-2018-0171 to hijack thousands of legacy networking devices and conduct long-running campaigns against energy companies, utilities and a nuclear plant across hundreds of organizations and dozens of countries, deploying tools such as SYNful Knock and credential-stealing malware.

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