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reported that Hexane is targeting organizations in the oil and gas industry and telecommunication providers. Lyceum was observed using password spraying and brute-force attacks to compromise email accounts of targeted individuals. Security experts at Dragos Inc. ” reads the report published by SecureWork.
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