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Microsoft has already identified at least 40 government agencies and companies targeted in the massive suspected Russian hack
The software titan said that 80 percent of the victims it has uncovered so far are in the United States and warns that number will rise substantially
It did not reveal the names of those infiltrated by hackers but said nearly half were tech companies
Two US agencies responsible for maintaining America s nuclear weapons stockpile have already said they were compromised in the attack
The attack also breached the Pentagon, FBI, Treasury and State Departments
The nation s cybersecurity agency is warning the attack poses a grave threat to government and private networks
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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.
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.
President of Microsoft Brad Smith confirmed in a blog that the company had indeed been breached as a result of the SolarWinds hack. Here, he speaks onstage during the 2018 Concordia Annual Summit - Day 1 at Grand Hyatt New York on September 24, 2018 in New York City. (Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)
In a blog post Thursday, Microsoft President Brad Smith announced it had notified more than 40 customers of breaches due to the SolarWinds hack based on telemetry from its Defender antivirus, and argued for several policy solutions.
Later that day, the company confirmed it too had been affected by the SolarWinds fiasco, but clarified that neither customer data nor production systems showed evidence of being invaded.
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