Russian SolarWinds hackers step up attacks on US tech companies
The
Russian-based agency behind last year's massive SolarWinds cyberattack has
targeted hundreds more companies and organizations in its latest
wave of attacks on US-based computer systems, Microsoft said
in a blog post.
Microsoft, in a blog post dated October 24, said Nobelium’s latest
wave targeted “resellers and other technology service providers” of cloud
services. Those attacks were part of a broader campaign over the summer, Microsoft said,
adding it had notified 609 customers between July 1 and October 19 that they
had been attacked.
Just a small percent of the latest attempts were successful, Microsoft told
the New
York Times, which first reported the breach, but it gave no further
details.
US cybersecurity officials
could not be immediately reached to confirm the report. US officials confirmed
to the Times that the operation was underway, with one unnamed senior
administration official calling it "unsophisticated, run-of-the mill
operations that could have been prevented if the cloud service providers had
implemented baseline cybersecurity practices."
"This recent activity is another indicator that Russia is
trying to gain long-term, systematic access to a variety of points in the
technology supply chain and establish a mechanism for surveilling – now or in
the future – targets of interest to the Russian government," Microsoft
wrote.
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