On Friday, Microsoft said Russian government hackers continue to break into its systems using information obtained during a hack last year.
This time, the Russian hackers dubbed Midnight Blizzard have targeted Microsoft’s source code and other internal systems, the company said.
This has included access to some of the company’s source code repositories and internal systems,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post.
This new intrusion comes after Microsoft revealed in January that Russian government hackers had broken into the company’s systems last November.
Midnight Blizzard is believed to be a hacking group working for Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, known by its Russian initials, SVR.
AI aides nation-state hackers but also helps US spies to find them, says NSA cyber directorNation state-backed hackers and criminals are using generative AI in their cyberattacks, but U.S. intelligence is also using artificial intelligence technologies to find malicious activity, according to a senior U.S. National Security Agency official.
“We already see criminal and nation state elements utilizing AI.
“We’re seeing intelligence operators [and] criminals on those platforms,” said Joyce.
“On the flip side, though, AI, machine learning [and] deep learning is absolutely making us better at finding malicious activity,” he said.
“Machine learning, AI, and big data helps us surface those activities [and] brings them to the fore because those accounts don’t behave like the normal business operators on their critical infrastructure, so that gives us an advantage,” Joyce said.
