Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems from SolarWinds
Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it found malicious
software in its systems related to a massive hacking campaign disclosed by U.S.
officials this week, adding a top technology target to a growing list of
attacked government agencies.
The Redmond, Washington company is a user of Orion, the widely
deployed networking management software from SolarWinds Corp which was used in
the suspected Russian attacks on vital U.S. agencies and others.
Microsoft also
had its own products leveraged to attack victims, said people familiar with the
matter. The U.S. National Security Agency issued a rare "cybersecurity
advisory" Thursday detailing how certain Microsoft Azure cloud
services may have been compromised by hackers and directing users to lock down
their systems.
"Like other SolarWinds customers, we have been actively
looking for indicators of this actor and can confirm that we detected malicious
Solar Winds binaries in our environment, which we isolated and removed," a
Microsoft spokesperson said, adding that the company had found "no
indications that our systems were used to attack others."
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