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SolarWinds hacking campaign puts Microsoft in hot seat


SolarWinds hacking campaign puts Microsoft in hot seat
FRANK BAJAK, AP Technology Writer
April 17, 2021
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1of3FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2021, file photo Brad Smith, president of Microsoft Corporation, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington during a hearing on emerging technologies and their impact on national security. Federal lawmakers are insisting Microsoft swiftly upgrade security to what they say it should have provided in the first place and without fleecing taxpayers.Susan Walsh/APShow MoreShow Less
2of3FILE - In this July 21, 2020 file photo, Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf, speaks during a news conference in Washington. In December, U.S. officials discovered that federal agencies had fallen victim to a cyberespionage effort pulled off largely through a hack of SolarWinds software .The hackers accessed accounts belonging to then-acting Secretary Chad Wolf and staff at the Cybersecurity and I ....

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SolarWinds hacking campaign puts Microsoft in the spotlight


SolarWinds hacking campaign puts Microsoft in hot seat
Lawmakers are insisting that Microsoft swiftly upgrade security to what they believe it should have provided in the first place.
Author: Associated Press
Updated: 8:41 AM EDT April 17, 2021
The sprawling, monthslong hacking campaign deemed a grave threat to U.S. national security came to be known as SolarWinds for the company whose software update Russian intelligence agents stealthily seeded with malware to penetrate sensitive government and private networks.
Yet it was Microsoft whose code the cyber spies persistently abused in the campaign s second stage, rifling through emails and other files of such high-value targets as then-acting Homeland Security chief Chad Wolf and hopping undetected among victim networks.  ....

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