Echoing the government’s warning, Microsoft said Thursday that it had identified 40 companies, at a minimum, that government agencies and think tanks that the suspected Russian hackers stole data from. Nearly half are private technology firms, Microsoft said, many of them cybersecurity firms, like FireEye, that are charged with securing vast sections of the public and private sector. “There are more nongovernmental victims than there are governmental victims, with a big focus on I.T. A Microsoft “heat map” of infections shows that the vast majority — 80 percent — are in the United States, while Russia shows no infections at all. The government warning, issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, did not detail the new ways that the hackers got into the government systems.

Source: New York Times December 17, 2020 19:07 UTC