{"id":1653,"date":"2021-05-28T10:36:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T08:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/28\/russian-solarwinds-hackers-launch-email-attack-on-government-agencies\/"},"modified":"2021-05-28T10:36:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T08:36:11","slug":"russian-solarwinds-hackers-launch-email-attack-on-government-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/28\/russian-solarwinds-hackers-launch-email-attack-on-government-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian SolarWinds hackers launch email attack on government agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft says group targeted more than 15o American and foreign organisations using USAid account<\/p>\n<p>The state-backed Russian cyber spies behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign launched a targeted phishing assault on US and foreign government agencies and thinktanks this week using an email marketing account of the US Agency for International Development (USAid), Microsoft has said.<\/p>\n<p>The effort targeted about 3,000 email accounts at more than 150 different organisations, at least a quarter of them involved in international development, humanitarian and human rights work, the Microsoft vice-president Tom Burt <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2SzLGmO\">wrote in a blog post late on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/28\/russian-solarwinds-hackers-launch-assault-government-agencies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/775e38502885aa7f630d90c8d1a561df658b6db9\/0_287_4896_2938\/master\/4896.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5632c944e954729e3d05a495755ceabd\" title=\"Russian SolarWinds hackers launch email attack on government agencies\" \/>Microsoft says group targeted more than 15o American and foreign organisations using USAid account<br \/>\nThe state-backed Russian cyber spies behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign launched a targeted phishing assault on US and foreign government agencies and thinktanks this week using an email marketing account of the US Agency for International Development (USAid), Microsoft has said.<br \/>\nThe effort targeted about 3,000 email accounts at more than 150 different organisations, at least a quarter of them involved in international development, humanitarian and human rights work, the Microsoft vice-president Tom Burt wrote in a blog post late on Thursday. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft says group targeted more than 15o American and foreign organisations using USAid account The state-backed Russian cyber spies behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign launched a targeted phishing assault on US and foreign government agencies and thinktanks this week using an email marketing account of the US Agency for International Development (USAid), Microsoft has said. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/28\/russian-solarwinds-hackers-launch-email-attack-on-government-agencies\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russian SolarWinds hackers launch email attack on government agencies<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1654,"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\/1653"}],"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=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}