Microsoft: SolarWinds Hackers Target 150 Organizations With Phishing Campaign

Frank Bajak, reporting for the AP:

The state-backed Russian cyber spies behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign launched a targeted spear-phishing assault on U.S. and foreign government agencies and think tanks this week using an email marketing account of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Microsoft says.

The effort targeted about 3,000 email accounts at more than 150 different organizations, at least a quarter of them involved in international development, humanitarian and human rights work, Microsoft Vice President Tom Burt said in a blog post late Thursday.

When’s the last time a major national-newsworthy large-scale hack like this affected any organization that wasn’t running Windows for their server infrastructure?

Update: Best answer so far: Robert Morris’s worm in 1988.

★ Sunday, 30 May 2021