The FCC has said the company’s conduct to US agencies demonstrates a lack of credibility. On the steps taken by the US, the Chinese government said that it would take every step in the interest of its companies, which would be necessary for them.
However, so far China has not taken any retaliatory action. The Pentagon has blacklisted Chinese telecommunications companies. Apart from this, Chinese state oil companies, processor and chip suppliers, shipbuilding and nuclear power equipment companies have also been placed in this list.
Russia’s main intelligence agency has now challenged US President Joe Biden with a new cyber espionage campaign. Microsoft executives and cyber security experts warned that the Russian agency was trying to break into thousands of computers belonging to the US government, corporate employees and think tanks with a new campaign.
About six months ago, Biden banned Russian institutions and several companies for conducting a series of complex intelligence operations around the world.
Microsoft’s top security official, Tom Burt, said the new campaign is “huge”. It has already started. US government officials have also confirmed this campaign. He said that this campaign has been started by the Russian intelligence agency SVR to get cloud data.
SVR broke into the Democratic National Committee’s network for the first time in the 2016 election. The President’s Office, the White House, earlier this year accused SVR of breaching SolarWinds software.
It is considered to be very complex software, which is used by US government agencies and big companies. It is alleged that through changes in the software, the Russian intelligence agency had access to 18,000 users.
Angered by this, Biden also imposed sanctions on Russian financial institutions and technology companies in April. However, he withdrew the sanctions after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The US official stressed that Microsoft’s report shows that they fall into the category of espionage that major powers continue to do against each other. Christopher Krebs, director of the Cyber Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security, said that Russian hackers are engaged in hacking the system itself.
At the time of the announcement of the presidential election in 2020, orders were given by Donald Trump to stop it. Central officials say that to protect the country from cyber threats, Biden has bluntly told the officers that burglary should not happen.
Russian hackers have attempted 23,000 hacking times.
While it’s not yet clear how successful the recent attacks were, Microsoft says it recently reported 23,000 attempts by hackers to enter a network of 600 organizations.
is detected. By comparison, the company said it had detected 20,500 targeted attacks worldwide during the past three years. Microsoft said a small percentage of the recent attacks were successful, but did not say how many companies were affected.
