The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency today recommended all organizations take action to prevent Russian state-sponsored actors from exploiting vulnerabilities in multifactor authentication (MFA) protocols and Windows print spooler. 
 
John Riggi, AHA’s national advisor for cybersecurity and risk, said, “Russian state-sponsored cyber criminals and spies are conducting ‘vulnerability chaining’ — linking multiple known vulnerabilities together to gain access to networks and data. This pattern highlights the need to ensure MFA is properly configured to detect and prohibit unknown devices from enrolling in the service, and prioritizing patching of all vulnerabilities that allow unauthorized remote access and code execution. Reports of the Russian military deploying destructive malware in Ukraine continue to add urgency to acting on all alerts related to cyber threats posed by the Russian government." 
 
For more on this or other cyber and risk issues, email Riggi at jriggi@aha.org.
 

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