Security News > 2024 > January > Microsoft's Top Execs' Emails Breached in Sophisticated Russia-Linked APT Attack
2024-01-20 03:11
Microsoft on Friday revealed that it was the target of a nation-state attack on its corporate systems that resulted in the theft of emails and attachments from senior executives and other individuals in the company's cybersecurity and legal departments. The Windows maker attributed the attack to a Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) group it tracks as Midnight Blizzard (formerly
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