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The Biden administration has formally accused hackers affiliated with China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) of exploiting Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities in a massive cyberattack. The United States government teamed up with the European Union, the United Kingdom and NATO to condemn China’s malicious cyber activities, which include ransomware operations against private companies with multi-million-dollar ransom demands. But unlike what Russia faced following the SolarWinds attac...

Hart InterCivic and Microsoft have formed a partnership to incorporate ElectionGuard software developed by Microsoft in Hart’s Verity voting...

Date Time Hart and Microsoft announce partnership to make elections more secure, verifiable On Thursday, Hart InterCivic and Microsoft Corp. announced a partnership to incorporate ElectionGuard software developed by Microsoft into Hart’s Verity® voting systems. The partnership makes Hart the first major voting machine manufacturer in the United States to provide end-to-end verifiability to voters, giving individual voters the ability to confirm their ballots were counted in an election and n...

After another Nobelium cyberattack, Microsoft has emphasized the need to differentiate between "espionage as usual" acts and crippling attacks like SolarWinds. It has encouraged cloud adoption too.

Officials are calling for harsher measures against Russia following Microsoft's assessment by that hackers behind the devastating SolarWinds hack were continuing to launch cyberattacks against U.S. government agencies and other organizations.

After China-based cyberattack that hit its business email servers earlier this year, Microsoft has now warned against an ongoing "sophisticated" attack from Russia-based threat actors targeting government agencies, think tanks, ...

Touted as the same Russia-based hackers behind the infamous SolarWinds software hack, the latest attack by the group named Nobelium has targeted around 3,000 email accounts across 150 organisations

In a blog post detailing the research, the tech giant said it is in the process of notifying all of its customers who had been attacked by the Nobelium hacking group, which is thought to be backed by the Russian state. Nobelium is said to have been behind December 2020s SolarWinds hack, which saw hundreds of companies, as well as nine US governmental agencies, have their networks infiltrated. Although widely believed to have been orchestrated by the Russian government, the head of the Russian...

The same Russian group behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign launched another wave of attacks this week on more than 150 organizations, Microsoft announced Thursday.

Russian hackers seized the email system used by the State Department's international agency and other human rights groups, Microsoft announced.Tom Burt, Microsoft's corporate vice president of Customer Security & Trust, disclosed in a blog post on Thursday that the Russian group Nobelium targeted about 3,000 email accounts from 150 different organizations in at least 24 countries. The United States received the largest share of the attacks....