Colorado congressman compares SUNBURST attack to cyber Pearl Harbor
Microsoft president says the attack is a moment of reckoning for America
Suspected Russian hackers breached key government agencies and companies
Officials warn that hackers had ample opportunity to set up secret backdoors
Breach went undetected for nine months giving hackers free reign in systems
Experts say infected networks may need to be burned to the ground and rebuilt
Hackers conducted a dry run of the attack more than a year ago
Apparent espionage campaign has been called the largest breach in US history
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has become the first U.S. official to publicly attribute a massive hacking campaign to Russia, after broad swathes of the federal government and private sector were revealed to be compromised.
Microsoft identifies more than 40 organizations targeted in massive cyber breach By: CNN Microsoft has identified more than 40 of its customers around the world that had problematic versions of a third-party IT management program installed and that were specifically targeted by the suspected Russian hacking campaign disclosed this week, the company said in a blog post Thursday.
By Alex Marquardt, Brian Fung and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) Microsoft has identified more than 40 of its customers around the world that had problematic versions of a third-party IT management program installed and that were specifically targeted by the suspected Russian hacking campaign disclosed this week, the company said in a blog post Thursday.
Five Russian hacks that transformed US cyber-security
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image captionSince the days of the Soviet Union, cyber-espionage has been a key concern of US officials
, is a reminder that Moscow is America s oldest adversary in cyber-space.
For more than three decades, hackers linked to Moscow are believed to have tried to steal US secrets online.
Those breaches of US systems have done much to define how America sees cyber-space, and how it defends itself.
And they have learnt it is not always possible to predict, or stop, Moscow s efforts.
1) Cuckoo s Egg
The first person to trail foreign hackers taking sensitive US data was not a spy, but an astronomer who was worried about an unpaid $0.75.
Cisco Hacked Through SolarWinds As Tech Casualties Mount
Roughly two dozen computers in a Cisco lab were compromised through malicious SolarWinds Orion updates, Bloomberg reported. Cisco says there isn’t currently any known impact to its offers or products. By Michael Novinson December 18, 2020, 09:18 PM EST
Internal machines used by Cisco researchers were targeted via SolarWinds as the impact of the colossal hacking campaign on the tech sector becomes apparent, Bloomberg reported.
Roughly two dozen computers in a Cisco lab were compromised through malicious updates to SolarWinds’ Orion network monitoring platform, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the incident. The San Jose, Calif.-based networking giant told CRN its security team moved quickly to address the issue, and that there isn’t currently any known impact to Cisco offers or products.
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Microsoft Unveils New Surface Laptop
The fallout from a major hacking campaign, believed to be conducted by Russia, continues to grow. In a blog post, Microsoft said that it was one of the numerous organizations that were using malware-infected software from SolarWinds. The company said that its IT management software was infected with malware, which allowed hackers to gain access to the computer systems of over 18,000 organizations around the world, including several U.S. government agencies.
Microsoft said it removed the malware from its systems and has identified more than 40 customers using its Defender Anti-Virus software that were infected with the malware. The company said it expects the number of victims to grow as it continues to investigate the massive hack.