Fancy Bear, a Russian state-sponsored threat actor, has been spying on logistics organizations in Western and NATO countries to monitor foreign aid moving into Ukraine.
Organizations targeted by Fancy Bear included logistics providers, technology companies, and government organizations involved in transporting aid to Ukraine via various transportation modes such as air, sea, and rail.
APT28 (Fancy Bear) leveraged credential guessing, brute-force attacks, spearphishing campaigns, and software vulnerabilities like CVE-2023-23397 to infiltrate systems, manipulate email mailbox permissions, and remain hidden while monitoring sensitive communication.
The cyber-physical attacks in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict highlight the importance of organizations having full visibility into their environments and a risk-based approach to securing cyber-physical systems to combat modern threats.