{"id":117295,"date":"2020-12-17T21:23:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T05:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/microsoft-president-sounds-alarm-on-ongoing-solarwinds-hack-identifies-40-more-precise-targets"},"modified":"2020-12-17T21:23:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T05:23:48","slug":"microsoft-president-sounds-alarm-on-ongoing-solarwinds-hack-identifies-40-more-precise-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/microsoft-president-sounds-alarm-on-ongoing-solarwinds-hack-identifies-40-more-precise-targets","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft president sounds alarm on \u2018ongoing\u2019 SolarWinds hack, identifies 40 more precise targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-president-sounds-alarm-on-ongoing-solarwinds-hack-identifies-40-more-precise-targets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft wants you to know this hack is even bigger than you think.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Microsoft president Brad Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/on-the-issues\/2020\/12\/17\/cyberattacks-cybersecurity-solarwinds-fireeye\/\">warned that the wide-ranging hack<\/a> of the SolarWinds\u2019 Orion IT software is \u201congoing,\u201d and that investigations reveal \u201can attack that is remarkable for its scope, sophistication and impact.\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/12\/13\/22173035\/hackers-russia-breached-us-government-agencies-email-cozy-bear\">breach targeted<\/a> several US government agencies and is believed to have been carried out by Russian nation-state hackers.<\/p>\n<p>Smith characterized the hack as \u201ca moment of reckoning\u201d and laid out in no uncertain terms just how large and how dangerous Microsoft believes the hack to be. It \u201crepresents an act of recklessness that created a serious technological vulnerability for the United States and the world,\u201d Smith argues.<\/p>\n<p>He believes that it \u201cis not just an attack on specific targets, but on the trust and reliability of the world\u2019s critical infrastructure in order to advance one nation\u2019s intelligence agency.\u201d Though the post stops short of explicitly accusing Russia, the implication is very clear. \u201cThe weeks ahead will provide mounting and we believe indisputable evidence about the source of these recent attacks,\u201d according to Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft wants you to know this hack is even bigger than you think. Microsoft president Brad Smith warned that the wide-ranging hack of the SolarWinds\u2019 Orion IT software is \u201congoing,\u201d and that investigations reveal \u201can attack that is remarkable for its scope, sophistication and impact.\u201d The breach targeted several US government agencies and is believed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}