Microsoft reveals hackers Solarwinds attacks 150 organizations with 'phishing' emails.

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Microsoft reveals hackers Solarwinds attacks 150 organizations with 'phishing' emails.

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Microsoft said that Russian-backed hacker group behind the hack "Solar Winds" to get information from many government agencies in the past year. Has conducted เล่นสล็อตxo ผ่านเว็บ a cyber attack on US government agencies. and abroad This week, including the think tanks, think tanks, using spear, phishing, or targeted attacks. through the email of the United States Agency for International Development (U.S. Agency for International Development).

Mr. Tom Burt, Microsoft's Vice President Said in a blog post on Thursday evening that such an attack Aimed at 3,000 e-mails of more than 150 organizations, at least a quarter of those organizations. work related to international development humanitarian assistance and human rights work

However, Microsoft did not say in a blog post how successful the group's efforts were.

Volexity, a cybersecurity company which monitors such hacks Microsoft reports that the low email phishing detection rate indicates that the hacker group has not been able to track email. “It should have been fairly successful in infiltrating the target.”

Vice President of Microsoft also said this attack This indicates that the Russian hacker group has made several sustained efforts to “Aim at government agencies working on foreign policy. This is part of an intelligence collection effort.” These government agencies work across 24 countries.

hacker group Access to USAID's Constant Contact email account, an email marketing account. As reported by Microsoft And sent a realistic phishing email dated 25 May. Claims to have new information about US election fraud In recent years and inserts links containing malware or programs designed to attack computers and networks That would allow hackers to gain access to lax security computers for a long time.

Microsoft also reported in another blog post that Such hacking attempts have been ongoing. And there are many waves by using the spear phishing technique that are aimed at a specific person or company that was detected for the first time in January this past Before it evolved to send emails to massive numbers of users this week.

The hack is what cybersecurity experts call a “busy” or easy-to-detect action. while the attack event "Solar Winds" in the past year This allows hackers to infiltrate private companies. Dozens of brain institutions Including nine other US government agencies, it was a stealth attack that lasted most of the year. Before cyber security firm FireEye caught it in December of last year.

The Hack Solar Winds Incident was an opportunistic update of some of the company's software. While this hack uses email as a tool In both of these attacks, hackers have been aiming to destroy confidence in the technology system.

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