U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that Russian government-backed hackers stole emails from several U.S. federal agencies as a result of an ongoing cyberattack at Microsoft.
In a statement published Thursday, the U.S. cyber agency said the cyberattack, which Microsoft initially disclosed in January, allowed the hackers to steal federal government emails “through a successful compromise of Microsoft corporate email accounts.”
The hackers, which Microsoft calls “Midnight Blizzard,” also known as APT29, are widely believed to work for Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR.
It’s such an embarrassment. Our government has access to incredible technological resources, yet they still use unencrypted email.
If only end-to-end encryption was simple, available, and part of most communications somehow. In some magical fairy land where that sort of thing is possible.
Not in the richest nation on earth though. No, we crammed everything into the cheapest bucket we could pork barrel away and will now blame someone else while accepting huge campaign contributions.