Nation-state hackers have long used email attacks to try infiltrating American political campaigns, such as the Russian hack in 2016 in which a state-sponsored group ultimately published internal emails from Hillary Clinton’s staffers. The US State Department on Wednesday identified six all...
The activity, first observed in December 2022, is the latest instance of the nation-state adversary "embedding themselves" in another group's malicious operations to further their own objectives and cloud attribution efforts, Lumen Technologies Black Lotus Labs said. "In December 2022, Secret ...
Microsoft's threat research team routinely investigates nation-state hackers such as Russia's "Midnight Blizzard," who they say is responsible. The company said its probe into the breach indicated thehackerswere initially targeting Microsoft to learn what the technology giant knew about their operation...
Nation-state attacks from China and Russia are increasing, and targeting corporations across the economy, as well as the U.S. government and social infrastructure. Microsoft has been a very big target, including hacks by Russia andChina. There is growing pressure from theU.S. governmentfo...
“We appreciate the work of the [Cyber Safety Review Board] to investigate the impact of well-resourced nation-state threat actors who operate continuously and without meaningful deterrence,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement to CNN. ...
A nation state-controlled media and proxies amplify narratives inside targeted audiences. This three-step approach was applied in late 2021, for example, to support the Russian false narrative around purported bioweapons and biolabs in Ukraine. In addition to Russia, we have observed other nations,...
Year-round, Microsoft tracks nation-state threat activities to help protect organizations and individuals from these advanced persistent actors. We’re constantly improving our capabilities to bring better detections, threat context, and actor knowledge to our customers so they can improve their own ...
Microsoft said that hack was “the most sophisticated nation-state cyberattack in history.” The hack also involved infiltrating Democratic National Committee servers, stealing emails and documents, and releasing them publicly. This time around, though, Midnight Blizzard didn’t have to build a sophis...
Microsoft noted in its statement that the hackers involved are “well-resourced nation state threat actors who operate continuously and without meaningful deterrence.” The company said it recognizes that recent events “have demonstrated a need to adopt a new culture of engineering security in ...
Microsoft noted in its statement that the hackers involved are "well-resourced nation state threat actors who operate continuously and without meaningful deterrence." The company said it recognizes that recent events "have demonstrated a need to adopt a new culture of engineering security in our own...