Russian spies posed as Microsoft tech support in bid to hack government departments3 Aug 2023 19:07
An interesting article to read from the telegraph paper.
Are we ever going to be safe from the Russian and Chinese government sponsored hackers?
I guess no based on this latest run of events.
Big organisations like Capita will be always at risk.
There's far too many of those unscrupulous hackers. A real nightmare for a CEO of any organisation that also handles public data IT systems.
3rd August 2023 The Telegraph
Disclosure comes as the tech giant faces criticism for its handling of a recent Chinese cyber attack.
Russian spies posed as tech support on Microsoft Teams as part of a hacking campaign that targeted governments around the world.
A series of “highly targeted social engineering attacks” saw Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) try to break into around 40 organisations worldwide, including governments.
The SVR’s targets included government departments, NGOs, charities and companies from the IT services, technology, manufacturing, and media sectors, Microsoft said.
The hackers used Microsoft Teams, a widely used business chat tool, to try and tempt their targets into clicking malicious links.
Microsoft said: “The target user may receive a Microsoft Teams message request from an external user masquerading as a technical support or security team.”
Accepting that message and clicking on a link in it gave the Russians a clear path into the target organisation’s computer systems, granting access for further espionage.
What makes the latest attack notable is that the Russians found a way to send Teams messages that appeared to come from a legitimate Microsoft tech support user with an email address ending in onmicrosoft[.com]
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