{"id":10447,"date":"2023-06-19T07:41:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T05:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/19\/hackers-behind-microsoft-outage-most-likely-russian-backed-group-aiming-to-drive-division-in-the-west\/"},"modified":"2023-06-19T07:41:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T05:41:21","slug":"hackers-behind-microsoft-outage-most-likely-russian-backed-group-aiming-to-drive-division-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/19\/hackers-behind-microsoft-outage-most-likely-russian-backed-group-aiming-to-drive-division-in-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers behind Microsoft outage most likely Russian-backed group aiming to \u2018drive division\u2019 in the west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity firm says Anonymous Sudan is unlikely to be authentic hacktivist group, as initially believed<\/p>\n<p>The hackers believed to be behind a recent attack that took some of Microsoft\u2019s services offline are likely to be a Russian-linked group rather than a grassroots pro-Islam collective operating out of Sudan, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous Sudan, which surfaced in January 2023, has also claimed responsibility for at least 24 distributed denial-of-service attacks on Australian companies, including healthcare, aviation and education organisations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jun\/19\/hackers-behind-microsoft-outage-most-likely-russian-backed-group-aiming-to-drive-division-in-the-west\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/138746ee9f3b3f9b0e05cf7c5f27d417e8478e6d\/0_182_5472_3283\/master\/5472.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9996e09bd70dd37567325770b5a20dac\" title=\"Hackers behind Microsoft outage most likely Russian-backed group aiming to \u2018drive division\u2019 in the west\" \/>Cybersecurity firm says Anonymous Sudan is unlikely to be authentic hacktivist group, as initially believed<br \/>\nThe hackers believed to be behind a recent attack that took some of Microsoft\u2019s services offline are likely to be a Russian-linked group rather than a grassroots pro-Islam collective operating out of Sudan, experts say.<br \/>\nAnonymous Sudan, which surfaced in January 2023, has also claimed responsibility for at least 24 distributed denial-of-service attacks on Australian companies, including healthcare, aviation and education organisations. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity firm says Anonymous Sudan is unlikely to be authentic hacktivist group, as initially believed The hackers believed to be behind a recent attack that took some of Microsoft\u2019s services offline are likely to be a Russian-linked group rather than a grassroots pro-Islam collective operating out of Sudan, experts say. Anonymous Sudan, which surfaced in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/19\/hackers-behind-microsoft-outage-most-likely-russian-backed-group-aiming-to-drive-division-in-the-west\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hackers behind Microsoft outage most likely Russian-backed group aiming to \u2018drive division\u2019 in the west<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}