Back in January 19th, Microsoft posted an entry in their blog about the company detecting a "nation-state attack" on January 12th that affected several of their systems. Back in January, Microsoft worked on mitigating, disrupting and investigating the attack, which according to Microsoft's investigations, led to the threat actor being Midnight Blizzard, a Russian state-sponsor actor that also goes by the name of NOBELIUM.

According to their initial blog post, the way in which the attackers gained access to Microsoft's systems was through a password spray attack, then gaining access to a portion of corporate Microsoft email accounts, but back then they assessed that the attack didn't show evidence of any stolen assets or data, but unfortunately for them, an update on the situation states the opposite.

In a new blog post just released minutes ago, Microsoft has stated that, with the elevated access they gain during the hack, the attackers accessed Microsoft's source code repositories and internal systems, with Microsoft claiming that one of the potential goals is to use the company's secrets, to which some of these have been shared with some of Microsoft's customers via email.

Additionally, Microsoft mentions that Midnight Blizzard's attacks seems to have increased during February, and that they will continue to work on mitigating and investigating the attacking activities.

Source

 

[Kioku]

Based russian! Now leak it all.

…for what?

 

[xtrem3x]

I understand why some people maybe concerned and I agree that some of the scenario's posted here could happen. But in reality it'll probably lead to nothing.

 

[osaka35]

I understand why some people maybe concerned and I agree that some of the scenario's posted here could happen. But in reality it'll probably lead to nothing.

fingers crossed

 

[Dark_Ansem]

I understand why some people maybe concerned and I agree that some of the scenario's posted here could happen. But in reality it'll probably lead to nothing.

Why you say so

 

[HellGhast]

Linux for the Win

 

[Sir Tortoise]

Linux for the Win

Can't have your source code leaked if you leak it yourself *taps head*

 

[ertaboy356b]

Zero day attacks incoming

 

[_Snow_]

I hope that this is just one more reason to push people towards adopting Linux. MicroSoft should never be trusted. I'll never update past Windows 7. Once I can no longer use Windows 7, then I'll be fully Linux. Microsoft had its time. Let it crumble, turn to dust and blow away in the wind.

 

[Kioku]

I hope that this is just one more reason to push people towards adopting Linux. MicroSoft should never be trusted. I'll never update past Windows 7. Once I can no longer use Windows 7, then I'll be fully Linux. Microsoft had its time. Let it crumble, turn to dust and blow away in the wind.

It won’t be. People are still on TMobile and they seemingly have a new breach every other month. Security doesn’t mean much to most people.

 

[RedColoredStars]

Please Russia fuk Nintendo so hard they cry over it.
Or better yet, have Russia host a GitHub counterpart where DMCA has no ruling due to Russia's legality on piracy

You and the 13 so far that liked your post and are cheering for Russia is quite pathetic.

 

[chrisrlink]

WW3 can't come soon enough

 

[Subtle Demise]

To the above comments regarding source codes and begging them to hack other companies, you realize that this is a disaster?
Russins state controlled hackers are not white hat….
They are going to use that information/code to fuck up the west.

Hack your military ,goverments, banks, ransomware against hospitals, infrastructure, powerplants and so on.

Dont be stupid, this can affect all of us in a very bad way…

It could, assuming they got source code to low-level stuff or maybe managed to comb through all the code and find an exploit in Windows Server or something. What are the chances of that? They don't clarify exactly what got stolen, so there's no way to tell what the impact will be right now. There's also nothing wrong with making light of a situation and I thought those comments were funny, especially the Nintendo ones.

 

[depaul]

Hacking is cool... until it happens to us.

Imagine those outlaws attacking some hospital, or some nuclear plant.

Not to say that Microsoft is good, they couldn't secure even their own system.

 

[Kioku]

Hacking is cool... until it happens to us.

Imagine those outlaws attacking some hospital, or some nuclear plant.

Not to say that Microsoft is good, they couldn't secure even their own system.

Hospitals HAVE been compromised..

 

[Jayro]

If the source code you want to keep away from people is accessible online in any form, you're just stupid

 

[Mayo1990]

Xbox One cfw soon

 

[CMDreamer]

[...] a Russian state-sponsor actor [...]

There goes all the credibility of this FAKE news.

Nice orchestra there US+MS, but with a very bad perfomance I must say.

How convenient, now that there's US non legitimate interest on Russia's borders, "magically" a pro russian hacker group "attacks" MS.

No 5#!t.

 

[Xzi]

There goes all the credibility of this FAKE news.

Nice orchestra there US+MS, but with a very bad perfomance I must say.

How convenient, now that there's US non legitimate interest on Russia's borders, "magically" a pro russian hacker group "attacks" MS.

No 5#!t.

Cyber warfare is constantly ongoing between nations, corporations, and independent hacker groups, here's one of many heat maps you can look at to view moment-to-moment hacking attempts. Obviously tensions between Russia and the West have only continued to increase since they decided to invade Ukraine, so it's not all that surprising when an attempt is occasionally successful.

 

[Lather]

Praying for a Windows 11 source code leak so we can get customized stuff
Edit: Also, please do the same to Nintendo

damn right

 

[Tuhr]

Nasty malware alert, if it's cyberwar.