Microsoft reported that its Outlook email service was hacked

Corporation Microsoft reported that her Outlook email client was hacked, should from the company’s report, which came into the possession of CNN.

Hackers exploited an unknown vulnerability in Outlook email service software between April and December 2022, the report says. According to the corporation, fewer than 15 organizations were subject to cyber attacks.

IN Microsoft believe that the attack was carried out by the hacker group APT28 (Fancy Bear / Strontium), which in the United States is associated with “Russian military intelligence”, informed BleepingComputer site.

March 3, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko toldthat the number of cyberattacks on Russian systems has increased by 65% ​​since the beginning of this year. According to him, such attacks “are often in the nature of identifying vulnerabilities in order to exploit these vulnerabilities at the right time.”

Nikolai Murashov, deputy director of the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents created by the FSB, in early February noted a significant increase in the number of cyberattacks since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine. He said that a “cybercompany of unprecedented scale” was deployed against Russia, the purpose of which is to disable the information infrastructure and gain access to the systems of organizations and enterprises.