Microsoft Tactically Nukes SolarWinds Hackers That Infiltrated U.S. Government Agencies
On Monday, news broke that Russian hackers breached SolarWinds in an effort to compromise numerous organizations. While private companies are affected, the most significant targets seemed to be part of the U.S government. Now, Microsoft has swooped in to try and kill the SolarWinds breach with several steps that have rolled out over the past several days.
When you have a breach as widespread as SolarWinds, which is rumored to be backed by hacker group APT29, or Cozy Bear, you must have an extreme response. Cozy Bear is likely to be a part of Russian intelligence and has been behind past DNC attacks and, more recently, COVID-19 research attacks. To stop Cozy Bear in its tracks with the “Sunburst” attack,