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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday confirmed previous reports that Russia-linked hackers tapped into correspondence between federal agencies and Microsoft. The agency publicly issued an emergency directive Thursday in which it told agencies that were affected by the breach to take actions including taking “steps to identify the full content of the…

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published its recently issued emergency directive on Thursday, which confirmed that a Russian state-sponsored hacker group was able to steal emails from federal agencies in connection with the breach of Microsoft executive accounts.

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an emergency directive this week urging federal agencies to protect exposed accounts.

The scope of cyberattack on Microsoft made public in January widens as government agencies ordered to assess the scale of Russian compromise.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) publicly issued an emergency directive today calling on Federal agencies to take immediate action to reset authentication credentials following a breach of Microsoft corporate email accounts by Russian state-sponsored cyber actor Midnight Blizzard.