Earlier this year, Microsoft revealed that Russian state hackers had been spying on the email accounts of some members of its senior management team. The company now further reports that the attack also led to the theft of some source code. This ongoing attack is carried out by the same group behind the attack on SolarWinds.
“We’ve seen evidence in recent weeks that Midnight Blizzard [Nobelium] uses information originally stolen from our corporate email systems to gain or attempt to gain unauthorized access,” Microsoft explains. “This included access to some of the company’s source code repositories and internal systems. Today, we found no evidence that client systems hosted on a Microsoft server were compromised.”
Microsoft does not specify which source code the Russian hackers gained access to. But the company says the Nobelium group (Microsoft calls it Midnight Blizzard) is continuing its attack and is now trying to use “secrets of various types that it has discovered” to try to further compromise the company’s software and potentially its customers.
Microsoft has strengthened security measures and monitoring and detection tools to protect its systems from this threat and help customers mitigate potential risks. However, the company is still investigating Nobelium’s latest attacks on its systems.
Source: The Verge
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