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The catastrophic solar winds cyber attack last year are apparently back at it. the latest online assault appeared to target u.s. government agencies. the biden administration is down-playing the latest wave of hacks and many think that might be the wrong move given that he s just weeks away from his first meeting with russian president vladimir putin since taking office. cyber security expert robert johnston who helped solve the 2016 democratic national committee hack joins us now to talk about this. robert, good morning, thanks for being with us. thank you. so microsoft says they targeted 3,000 e-mail accounts for 150 organizes across the u.s. and at least a quarter oof the hacked targets reportedly involve international development and human rights work. what are they after? right, so the russian svr which is the sister organization or the same version as our central intelligence agency is certainly back at it again since ....
Intelligence agency of russia or the russian svr would be doing almost on a day-to-day basis. this involves sending phishing e-mails. a lot of us had to grow savvy to these. we look for misspellings and something fishy. are we talking about something more complex here? was this an elaborate hack or a warning shot? this was a particularly nefarious hack. and the way they accomplished it was by using a well-known marketing e-mail service called constant contact which is also used by the usaid. they were able to compromise the luzwritimate account of a constant contact customer and then use that service to propagate phishing e-mails to these 150 different organizations and 3,000 individual targets. the reason why hackers do this is because it makes it easier to ....
Is weaponizing the access, sending code out to human rights group. the attack is an escalation, one president biden wanted to avoid, the timing a major inconvenience to say the least. president biden heads to geneva in three weeks for a summit with the russian president. let s get to alex marquardt. how did the russians carry out this attack? reporter: microsoft says it s the same group that carried out the massive solar winds attack last year, the intelligence community here in the u.s. says that was carried by the svr. they have not attributed this attack, but microsoft saying it s the same group of attackers. the solar winds attack was still think, this one was more brazen and not as intelligent, in some cases. but 3,000 different email accounts were targeted, around 150 different organizations, you mentioned some of them, a quarter of them were international development organizations, ones that focused on human rights, humanitarian ....
Two countries that have to be discussed. it further adds to the list of issues that are likely to be dis discuss at those face to face meetings. it comes a few weeks, maybe a month, after the united states, after president biden imposed stringent sanctions on russia for precisely this issue, the solar winds hack which microsoft says was carried out by the same hacking group backed by the svr, the russian foreign intelligence service has this latest hack, there were sanctions, expulsions of diplomats, there were sanctions against individuals as well, as well as economic sanctions, and it seems to make no difference whatsoever to the behavior of the russian side, ana. it almost seems like it s an escalation then in that regard. thank you, matthew chance, for that update. a trove of evidence, but will it give us an answer to this question? did the coronavirus leak from a chinese lab? a new report says officials still have a lot of intelligence already collected to an lees. an update t ....
Year. we will get to matthew chance live in moscow. more russian hacking. what can you tell us about this latest attack? reporter: we ve had this posting by microsoft that say that this week they identified this new cyber attack against various aid agencies, non-government organizations in the united states, but also in about 24 other countries as well. that seems to have emanated from russia, they ve said it s the same group of hackers that were behind the solar winds attack as you just mentioned. we know that the white house of course have specifically identified two intelligence work that it was the russian foreign intelligence service the svr that they believe was behind the solar winds attack which targeted various u.s. government organizations in an intelligence gathering effort. the u.s. is so sure of that that they of course instituted tough economic sanctions in april ....