Microsoft: Russia-backed SolarWinds hackers now targeting cloud computing
The same Russia-backed hackers behind last year’s massive SolarWinds cyberattack are at it again, this time targeting tech companies that provide and resell cloud technology, Microsoft said Monday.
In a blog post, Tom Burt, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of customer security and trust, wrote that the group Nobelium has been attempting to replicate its approach in past attacks on organizations key to the global technology supply chain.
“We believe Nobelium ultimately hopes to piggyback on any direct access that resellers may have to their customers’ IT systems and more easily impersonate an organization’s trusted technology partner to gain access to their downstream customers,” Burt wrote.
Microsoft said it first detected the latest campaign in May. The company said it has notified more than 140 resellers and technology service providers that they have been attacked; it believes as many as 14 have been compromised.
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