MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Over 150 organizations have been targeted by the same hacking collective that is allegedly responsible for the SolarWinds incident in December, Microsoft has announced.
According to the software company, the hacks aim at crippling agencies involved in information gathering for foreign policy reasons.
Computer surveillance
Nobelium has allegedly used USAID’s account for email marketing service Constant Contact to launch the new wave of attacks this week. The hackers are said to have used it to send out phishing emails, distributing a backdoor known as NativeZone, which allows, among other things, to steal data and infect other computers connected to the same network.
The United States has been accusing Kremlin of being involved in the SolarWinds hack, while Moscow has denied any role in the incident. Earlier in the month, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergey Naryshkin expressed the belief that US spy agencies could be behind the hacking attack.
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