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Microsoft says Kremlin-backed hackers accessed its source and internal systems

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Microsoft said that Kremlin-backed hackers who breached its corporate network in January have expanded their access since then in follow-on attacks that are targeting customers and have compromised the company's source code and internal systems. The intrusion, which the software company disclosed in January, was …

Hackers exploited Windows 0-day for 6 months after Microsoft knew of it

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Hackers backed by the North Korean government gained a major win when Microsoft left a Windows zero-day unpatched for six months after learning it was under active exploitation. Even after Microsoft patched the vulnerability last month, the company made no mention that the North Korean …

Microsoft Is Spying on Users of Its AI Tools

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Microsoft announced that it caught Chinese, Russian, and Iranian hackers using its AI tools—presumably coding tools—to improve their hacking abilities. From their report : In collaboration with OpenAI, we are sharing threat intelligence showing detected state affiliated adversaries—tracked as Forest Blizzard, Emerald Sleet, Crimson Sandstorm, Charcoal Typhoon …

Microsoft Executives Hacked

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Microsoft is reporting that a Russian intelligence agency—the same one responsible for SolarWinds—accessed the email system of the company’s executives. Beginning in late November 2023, the threat actor used a password spray attack to compromise a legacy non-production test tenant account and gain a foothold, and …

In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges

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Enlarge The hackers who recently broke into Microsoft’s network and monitored top executives’ email for two months did so by gaining access to an aging test account with administrative privileges, a major gaffe on the company's part, a researcher said. The new detail was provided in vaguely worded …

The life and times of Cozy Bear, the Russian hackers who just hit Microsoft and HPE

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) said Wednesday that Kremlin-backed actors hacked into the email accounts of its security personnel and other employees last May—and maintained surreptitious access until December. The disclosure was the second revelation of a major corporate network breach by the hacking group …

Microsoft network breached through password-spraying by Russia-state hackers

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Russia-state hackers exploited a weak password to compromise Microsoft’s corporate network and accessed emails and documents that belonged to senior executives and employees working in security and legal teams, Microsoft said late Friday. The attack, which Microsoft attributed to a Kremlin-backed hacking group it …

Microsoft network breached through password-spraying by Russian-state hackers

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Russia-state hackers exploited a weak password to compromise Microsoft’s corporate network and accessed emails and documents that belonged to senior executives and employees working in security and legal teams, Microsoft said late Friday. The attack, which Microsoft attributed to a Kremlin-backed hacking group it …

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