In January this year, an alarm was raised by Microsoft Security that Russian State-Sponsored cyber-attackers (Russian-linked criminal group Midnight Blizzard (also known as Nobelium) along with other names) had breached a number of systems and email accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since then, SecureSphere has been continuing to follow the unfolding story with interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It has now come to light that the cyber-attackers may have stolen the \u201cKeys to the Kingdom\u201d which includes but not limited to cryptographic secrets such as passwords, certificates, and authentication keys, and source code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If this is true, then this cyber-attack is extremely concerning as it will affect not just businesses and organisations but also home users as the cyber-attackers will be able to use the information stolen to create further attacks using zero-day vulnerabilities and other undiscovered security flaws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the other implications, is that the cyber-attackers could sell some or all of the information stolen on the Dark Web. This would raise the prospect of global cyber-attacks from multiple groups using the same and\/or different zero-day vulnerabilities and other undiscovered security flaws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due to the ongoing nature of the cyber-attack and the currently slow release of information to Cybersecurity professionals from Microsoft, very little is known as to how the cyber-attackers breached Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SecureSphere (NZ) is continuing closely to follow this event and any fall-out from it and will update with any information as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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