China’s Microsoft Hack, Russia’s SolarWinds Attack Threaten to Overwhelm U.S.
China’s global attack on Microsoft’s popular email software revealed last week and an equally sprawling Russian attack discovered three months ago have created a two-front war that threatens to overwhelm cybersecurity’s emergency responders, according to former U.S. officials and private security firms.
The coincidence of two far-reaching hacking campaigns launched by Russia and China, discovered just weeks apart, is now rippling across the global economy swamping insurers, IT staff, and firms that specialize in hunting and ejecting hackers.
The twin hacking campaigns involve the U.S.’s two most powerful cyberspace adversaries, and both have led to emergency meetings of the White House National Security Council, in part because of the unusually wide net cast by the attackers.
The coincidence of two far-reaching campaigns is rippling across the global economy swamping insurers, IT staff, and firms that hunt and eject hackers.