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Move Over, APTs: Cybercriminals Now Target Critical Infrastructure Too

ID: 1ca3b27e-16d0-5c85-9a01-7dee47cf4c31

STIX ID: report--1ca3b27e-16d0-5c85-9a01-7dee47cf4c31

Feed Name: Dark Reading

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2024-01-11

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: Tara Seals, Managing Editor, News, Dark Reading

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Forescout Research reports a widespread exploitation campaign abusing CVE-2023-27881 in Zyxel firewalls that has targeted critical infrastructure in Europe and beyond; while some incidents were linked to the Sandworm APT, much of the activity represents a separate opportunistic mass-exploitation crimewave against unpatched devices, posing sustained risk to power and utility operators.

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