An ongoing cyber-espionage campaign by Russia's Midnight Blizzard threat group may be much larger in scope than generally assumed, targeting international entities in government, armed forces, and academic institutions, Trend Micro said in recently released research. At its peak in October 2024, researchers observed Midnight Blizzard which they track as Earth Koshchei hitting as many as 200 entities a day with phishing emails containing a malicious Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) file and red tea
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Microsoft has recently declared that security will now be the company's topmost priority "above all else," even taking precedence over shipping new product features and capabilities. This commitment to making security job #1 comes on the heels of a string of incidents, including a major breach disclosed just two months ago, where Russian state-sponsored hackers tracked as Midnight Blizzard or Nobelium gained disturbing levels of access to Microsoft's internal systems and source code repositorie
Microsoft reported on 02 August 2023 that they caught a known Russian government-linked hacking group using its Microsoft Teams chat app to phish for credentials at targeted organizations. According to a research report from their Threat Intelligence team, the hacking team is linked to the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (also known as the SVR) and has been caught targeting government, non-government organizations (NGOs), IT services, technology, discrete manufacturing, a