The group used information obtained from corporate email systems to access Microsoft's source code repositories and internal systems.
of some of its senior leaders and stealing some of its source code. This is the same group that was behind the massive SolarWinds attack that compromised several US government agencies and private companies last year., Microsoft said that in recent weeks, it has seen evidence that Midnight Blizzard is using the information it obtained from its corporate email systems to gain unauthorized access to some of its source code repositories and internal systems.
Microsoft is still investigating Midnight Blizzard’s latest attacks on its systems. The attack on Microsoft is also part of a broader campaign by Russia’s SVR, the foreign intelligence service, to target various sectors and organizations worldwide.
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