security radars Microsoft detected a cyberattack on government email accounts in the USAaccording to the news channel BBC. At least 25 organizations were affected, but not all are related to the American public administration.
The aforementioned medium reports that Microsoft it does not specify details that the attack was directed at the United States government. But Department of Commerce The American confirms to the BBC that the technological giant warned them of the eventuality.
“Microsoft notified the Department of an engagement with the Microsoft Office 365 system, and the Department took immediate steps to respond,” a spokesperson for the government body told the aforementioned site. They added that the secretary of commerce, Gina Raimondo was among the victims of the cyberattack.
“We are monitoring our systems and will respond immediately if any additional activity is detected,” they added.
Perhaps the most delicate thing, according to US media sources, is that the State Department would be among one of the targets of the cyber attack by hackers who would have acted from China.
The BBC consulted the Chinese Embassy in London and they denied having been the perpetrators of this attack. They called the report “disinformation” and singled out the United States as “the world’s largest hacking empire and global cyber thief.”
Microsoft identifies the group of hackers. They say it was an organization called storm-0558. Cybercriminals accessed email accounts “by forging system-required digital authentication tokens”
“Storm-0558 primarily targets Western European government agencies and focuses on espionage, data theft, and credential access,” the tech giant said.