Microsoft assured that the Nobelium hacker group is attacking organizations that are integral to the provision of information.
A group of Russian hackers who carried out a successful attack against the US government last year are now dedicating their efforts to infiltrate cloud services and other technology providers, reported Monday. Microsoft.
In an entry on its corporate blog, the firm that created the Windows operating system said that the group of hackers known as Nobelium and acting on behalf of the Russian state is “attacking organizations that are integral to the global information technology supply chain. “.
Microsoft recalled that Nobelium is the entity responsible for the cyberattacks that at the end of 2020 They managed to infiltrate US government and corporate systems through SolarWinds software, which is linked to the Russian Foreign Espionage Service (SVR).
Since May, the firm that Satya Nadella runs has notified more than 140 technology companies that they have been attacked by Nobelium, and that, in at least 14 of these cases, the hackers have succeeded.
The victims of this new wave of cyber attacks are companies that provide cloud computing services -a sector that has skyrocketed its activity since the start of the covid-19 pandemic- and other computer products to its customers.
The hackers’ tactic is to use these technology providers to access your customers’ systems, something similar to what happened with SolarWinds.
“This is another indicator that Russia is trying to achieve systematic and long-term access to various points in the technology supply chain to establish a surveillance mechanism – either now or in the future – of those persons or entities of interest to it. Russian government, “they wrote from Microsoft.
At the end of last year, Nobelium was able to penetrate the systems of at least nine US government agencies and departments, as well as around 100 private sector companies, by updating the popular Orion software program from US technology company SolarWinds. . (I)
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