The targets of Fancy Bear's brute force attacks include both government agencies and the private sector, the advisory alleges.

With a vaccine still many months away, organizations doing coronavirus research will continue to find themselves in the crosshairs of spies.

Given that the group has been linked with data-wiping hacks in the past, the new activity has analysts’ full attention.

The unsophisticated technique gave the intruders access to two corporate drives for a “limited number of days,” Citrix's president says.