{"id":171649,"date":"2023-09-09T07:23:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T12:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/microsoft-engineers-account-attacked-leading-to-chinese-hack-of-us-officials"},"modified":"2023-09-09T07:23:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T12:23:01","slug":"microsoft-engineers-account-attacked-leading-to-chinese-hack-of-us-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/microsoft-engineers-account-attacked-leading-to-chinese-hack-of-us-officials","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Engineer\u2019s Account Attacked, Leading to Chinese Hack of US Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-engineers-account-attacked-leading-to-chinese-hack-of-us-officials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post is also available in: <a href=\"https:\/\/i-hls.com\/he\/archives\/120784\" class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0;\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i-hls.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/sitepress-multilingual-cms\/res\/flags\/he.png\" alt=\"he\" title=\"\u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea\"> \u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea (Hebrew)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent Chinese hack of senior officials at the U.S. State and Commerce departments was apparently a result of the compromise of a Microsoft engineer\u2019s corporate account, and stealing a valuable key, as reported by Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O).<\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters, Microsoft has stated that the engineer\u2019s account had been compromised by the \u201cStorm-0558\u201d hacking group, which allegedly used the key to forge authentication tokens to access email accounts on Microsoft\u2019s cloud servers including top American officials such as Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns and Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia Daniel Kritenbrink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is also available in: \u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea (Hebrew) A recent Chinese hack of senior officials at the U.S. State and Commerce departments was apparently a result of the compromise of a Microsoft engineer\u2019s corporate account, and stealing a valuable key, as reported by Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O). According to Reuters, Microsoft has stated that the engineer\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171649","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}