= Microsoft Corp. mentioned it has begun warning organizations that they have been targets of the identical Russian-sponsored group that hacked into its executives’ emails late final 12 months.
The hackers — a bunch referred to as Midnight Blizzard or Cozy Bear — has been recognized by Microsoft’s Risk Intelligence crew as the identical actor that “has been concentrating on different organizations,” in keeping with a weblog submit from the software program maker on Thursday. “As a part of our standard notification processes, we’ve got begun notifying these focused organizations.”
The disclosure is the most recent signal that the group’s latest actions have unfold past Microsoft. On Wednesday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. reported a breach of its cloud-based e-mail system that it mentioned was probably brought on by Midnight Blizzard.
Final week, Microsoft disclosed that the group compromised a “legacy non-production check tenant account” and used it as a foothold to entry a “small quantity” of e-mail accounts, together with these of senior management and workers who work in cybersecurity and authorized. The hackers have been initially concentrating on emails for details about Midnight Blizzard itself, Microsoft mentioned. A later investigation discovered that the preliminary e-mail account did not have multifactor authentication, a standard safety measure, Microsoft mentioned.
HPE, an data expertise supplier, mentioned it was notified on Dec. 12 {that a} nation-state hacking group breached its e-mail methods. Investigators imagine the hackers accessed and infiltrated information starting in Might utilizing a small proportion of HPE mailboxes from workers working in cybersecurity and different areas.
The US authorities has linked the hacking group, also referred to as Nobelium, to Russia. The identical group beforehand breached SolarWinds Corp. in an enormous cyber-espionage marketing campaign in opposition to a number of federal companies.
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