{"id":184797,"date":"2024-03-09T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T17:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/russian-state-backed-hackers-breached-microsofts-core-software-systems-company-says"},"modified":"2024-03-09T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T17:30:56","slug":"russian-state-backed-hackers-breached-microsofts-core-software-systems-company-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/russian-state-backed-hackers-breached-microsofts-core-software-systems-company-says","title":{"rendered":"Russian state-backed hackers breached Microsoft\u2019s core software systems, company says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russian-state-backed-hackers-breached-microsofts-core-software-systems-company-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Russian state-backed group that Microsoft said <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/microsoft-corporate-emails-hacked-russian-backed-group-company\/story?id=106527859\" target=\"_blank\">hacked<\/a> into its corporate email accounts was able to gain access to its core software systems, the company announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said its security team detected the attack in January and identified the group responsible as Midnight Blizzard, \u201cthe Russian state-sponsored actor also known as Nobelium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recent weeks, we have seen evidence that Midnight Blizzard is using information initially exfiltrated from our corporate email systems to gain, or attempt to gain, unauthorized access,\u201d Microsoft said in a <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/msrc.microsoft.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/update-on-microsoft-actions-following-attack-by-nation-state-actor-midnight-blizzard\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post update<\/a> on Friday. \u201cThis has included access to some of the company\u2019s source code repositories and internal systems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian state-backed group that Microsoft said hacked into its corporate email accounts was able to gain access to its core software systems, the company announced on Friday. Microsoft said its security team detected the attack in January and identified the group responsible as Midnight Blizzard, \u201cthe Russian state-sponsored actor also known as Nobelium.\u201d \u201cIn [\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-184797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184797","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=184797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}