Subj : Russian hackers were able to steal US government emails after att
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Date : Fri Apr 12 2024 13:45:04

Russian hackers were able to steal US government emails after attacking 
Microsoft

Date:
Fri, 12 Apr 2024 12:30:20 +0000

Description:
Russia-backed hackers stole federal agency emails, and the attack is far from 
over

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Russian hackers have taken advantage of a cyber attack on Microsoft to steal 
emails from the accounts of officials working in several US federal agencies. 

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed in a 
statement that the breach is a result of the threat actor tracked by 
Microsoft as MidnightBlizzard and known more widely as APT29, which has 
strong links to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. 

CISA said that the hackers gained access through a successful compromise of 
Microsoft corporate email accounts. Perfect espionage opportunity 

Midnight Blizzards successful compromise of Microsoft corporate email 
accounts and the exfiltration of correspondence between agencies and 
Microsoft presents a grave and unacceptable risk to agencies, CISA said in 
the statement, but did not disclose the agencies affected or the breadth of 
the damage. 

An emergency directive was issued by the agency stating that email accounts 
belonging to civilian government agencies needed to be secured as a result of 
the attack on Microsoft, upon which many government agencies rely for email 
communications. 

Microsoft first revealed that it was under attack in January, stating that 
Russian hackers had managed to gain access to corporate email accounts in the 
cybersecurity and legal departments. The tech giant later confirmed that the 
breach was not confined, and that corporate accounts belonging to 
organizations outside of Microsoft were also affected. 

Since then, Microsoft has been working to remove all access from the 
MidnightBlizzard group in what the company has described as an ongoing 
attack, stating that the threat actors may be using the information it has 
obtained to accumulate a picture of areas to attack and enhance its ability 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/russian-hackers-were-able-to-snoop-on-microsoft-
emails-with-government-officials


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