{"id":124323,"date":"2021-06-26T20:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/microsoft-says-new-breach-discovered-in-probe-of-suspected-solarwinds-hackers"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:22:36","slug":"microsoft-says-new-breach-discovered-in-probe-of-suspected-solarwinds-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/microsoft-says-new-breach-discovered-in-probe-of-suspected-solarwinds-hackers","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft says new breach discovered in probe of suspected SolarWinds hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-says-new-breach-discovered-in-probe-of-suspected-solarwinds-hackers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO, June 25 (Reuters) \u2014 Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/MSFT.O\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">(MSFT.O)<\/a> said on Friday an attacker had won access to one of its customer-service agents and then used information from that to launch hacking attempts against customers.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it had found the compromise during its response to hacks by a team it identifies as responsible for earlier major breaches at SolarWinds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/SWI.N\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">(SWI.N)<\/a> and Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said it had warned the affected customers. A copy of one warning seen by Reuters said the attacker belonged to the group Microsoft calls Nobelium and that it had access during the second half of May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, June 25 (Reuters) \u2014 Microsoft (MSFT.O) said on Friday an attacker had won access to one of its customer-service agents and then used information from that to launch hacking attempts against customers. The company said it had found the compromise during its response to hacks by a team it identifies as responsible for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124323","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}