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Busted! Microsoft discovers NOBELIUM's email malware before it enacts its large-scale attacks in the US landscape.

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

Intelligence committee adam schiff, he says this brazen act, utilizing emails associated with the u.s. government demonstrates that russia remains undeterred, despite sanctions following the solar winds attack, those sanctions gave the administration flexibility to tighten the economic screws further if necessary, it now appears necessary. and john, as you noted, this coming pairly three weeks before that biden-putin summit in geneva. >> escalates the stakes for that. alex marquardt, thank you f...

Different had this bill gone forward. it would have been an outside bipartisan commission, five commissioners selected from both parties, judicial notice subpoena power, they would have to issue a report by the end of the year but republicans simply just did not want to go this route. they did not -- some are frankly concerned about having an outside commission like this, where would it go, what it would lead to, and others said they believe the investigations that have been ongoing already are ...

Is weaponizing the access, sending code out to human rights group. the attack is an escalation, one president biden wanted to avoid, the timing a major inconvenience to say the least. president biden heads to geneva in three weeks for a summit with the russian president. lets get to alex marquardt. how did the russians carry out this attack? >> reporter: microsoft says its the same group that carried out the massive solar winds attack last year, the intelligence community here in the u.s. says t...

Organizations. how sophisticated was this attack? >> jake, thanks for having me on. you know, it actually reminds me of some of the spear phishing or email-based attacks that the russian sbr, which is the foreign intelligence service, the same from the solarwinds attack, that they used to use, kind of loud, almost spray and pray and hope they get somebody to click through. fire eye, one of their seniors said the same thing today on twitter. look, i think that this is pretty standard operating pr...

Did need ten. they did have five republicans who voted to convict donald trump at his impeachment trial voted yes, and one who did not vote to convict donald trump voted yes, rob portman. now democrats have to decide what to do next if they want to pursue this investigation in what happened to january 6th in the months ahead. >> please stay with us, with me in studio is rachel baittes, an katherine lucy. rachel, starting with you, to manus point, this bipartisan commission, to investigation, an ...

Cyberattack. >> its not especially sophisticated. i think there are many in the u.s. government who would argue this was the kind of thing they see every day. but i think whats really important here alisyn is the context of it. so president biden is going to be meeting vladimir putin in two and a half weeks in jgenevap pat of the in is the pace of the russian attacks on the united states of this kind, a much more solarwinds attack which got into both government agencies and many of the biggest c...

Expelled diplomats, put economic sanctions in place to target russias debt sales, sanction individuals associated with the solarwinds attack. what microsoft say is that this hack, which has been ongoing. its been taking place as recently as this week, was carried out by the same hacking group as carried out the solarwinds attack. and the white house through their intelligence agencies have said they are very confident about who that was. the svr, the russian foreign intelligence service, one of ...

That in the days right after it was announced we didnt hear anything from mitch mcconnell. we didnt actually hear anything from kevin mccarthy for a couple of days and i think that was because a lot of republicans know what they should have done and, you know, mitch mcconnell came out, you know, a few days after this deal was unveiled, and he said, look, im open to it, im going to consider it, and then there was reporting about how behind the scenes he was very much panning it, giving excuses ab...