Russian SolarWinds Hackers Access Microsoft Senior Leadership Emails
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Microsoft has revealed that Russian state-sponsored hackers accessed email accounts of some members of its senior leadership team late last year, using a password spray attack to compromise a legacy non-production test tenant account. The attack, attributed to the group known as Nobelium, was discovered last week and did not result from a vulnerability in Microsoft products or services. While Microsoft customers don't appear to have been impacted, this incident marks the latest in a series of cybersecurity incidents for the company, prompting a major overhaul of its software security approach.
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- Microsoft Reports Hack by Nation-State Actor The Wall Street Journal
- Microsoft Says Senior Executives Hacked By Russian Group CRN
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