Russian hackers breached Microsoft as part of their campaign that infiltrated the US nuclear weapon stockpile network, the Los Alamos lab and the Energy Department, officials reveal

Daily Mail ^ | Dec. 17, 2020 | Katelyn Caralle, Keith Grififth

[Grampa Dave]

Is this where Microsoft releases data showing a Russian hack and that’s how we get the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA bombardment of news telling us that the SolarWinds hack was a Russia hack!

when in fact we all know it was CHINA? It's: Not RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA! It's: The: ChiComs,ChiComs,ChiComs,ChiComs,ChiComs,ChiComs!

[Trumpisourlastchance]

Yawn. I smell fake.

[Trumpisourlastchance]

Designing hacking tools that they lose control of and get used against us.

[M-cubed]

Microsoft?.....Microsoft!!!!

Bill Gates...Please pick up the “Red” security phone....Your Trojan Horse is ready...

[coloradan]

!! This report of cyberintrusion is disputed !! Robust cyber networks protect our nation’s nuclear stockpile. Learn more.

[Parmy]

Microsoft has always been like swiss cheese. A hackers’ dream.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yeh, not buyin the Russia meme. If they came in through Solar Winds it was likely China.

[silverleaf]

This

Not buying the Russia pivot, it is a distraction from China and perhaps Iran
The real threat
The power that benefits from causing chaos and destruction on the US NOW
Whoever is doing this wants Trump out
Therefore cannot rule out this is a false flag by domestic planners with foreign assistance

[usconservative]

Gee, Microsoft getting hacked...a trademark of Microsoft software security....just a matter of time before their cloud is hacked.

I think you're right. None of this is a surprise with Microsoft given the displacement of US Software Engineers by cheap foreign Indian labor, led by Microsoft.

[piasa]

Most likely it’s Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.

[usconservative]

Is this where Microsoft releases data showing a Russian hack and that’s how we get the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA bombardment of news telling us that the SolarWinds hack was a Russia hack when in fact we all know it was CHINA?<

There were multiple state-sponsored hackers involved. Don't kid yourself that it was China all by itself. This was a multi-pronged attack that spanned almost a year. (Yeah, almost a YEAR and they're still discovering how deep and how long it's been going on.)

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

What’s the proof it was Russian hackers? Did they go through a VPN set to exit in Russia? No hacker would NOT use a VPN, and a hacker would NEVER use an exit server in his actual country. So that can’t be it.

So what is the proof? Did someone copy paste into a MS Word template with the language set to Crylic? That’s all the “proof” they had about “Russia hacked the DNC.”

[ChessExpert]

Russians first breached Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. Sad to say, it seems that no one ever cared.

[minnesota_bound]

I am so glad we have Office 365 and Teams etc from Microsoft. All our data is secure....
I logged into my Amazon account today using my personal outlook.com webmail address and noticed the image file I use at work in Oracle production that I only recently added, pop up in the logon screen.
Once a hacker gets into microsoft or oracle or any company doing business that is interconnected with Facebook, Twitter etc with other companies then all your information is compromised. Below is a popup from today from the Kaspersky anti-virus program I am trying out. My Webroot never pops up things like this.

[linMcHlp]

SolarWinds and Dominion

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-fireeye-confirm-solarwinds-supply-chain-attack/

https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/evasive-attacker-leverages-solarwinds-supply-chain-compromises-with-sunburst-backdoor.html

A March 24, 2020 hack initially corrupted a Solarwinds file (SolarWinds.Orion.Core.BusinessLayer.dll), after which, that corrupted Solarwinds file had/has been installed on various Windows OS based machines as a part of routine patching / updating.

The hacked file hatches, you might say, Supported' hack commands that find certain files and deletes those certain files.

Meanwhile, various files that provide information about the computer affected, are collected, compressed, encoded, and then sent to servers in Virginia, Seattle, WA, Finland, and the ISP Windstream Communications in the USA.

The hack tries to hide its tracks, including some subterfuge with the Windows Registry, and then force a reboot of the Windows OS based machine.

It is a cover-up.

With a lingering problem, that the affected Windows OS based computer, is well-known to the hacker.

The hacker is unknown.

[2CAVTrooper]

They breached the public access computers that contains the usual who we are, what we do, our history, etc that’s put out for public consumption.

[2CAVTrooper]

[palmer]

A March 24, 2020 hack initially corrupted a Solarwinds file (SolarWinds.Orion.Core.BusinessLayer.dll), after which, that corrupted Solarwinds file had/has been installed on various Windows OS based machines as a part of routine patching / updating.

That DLL won't be there or run unless the SolarWinds exe (i.e. SolarWinds SW) is installed.

[logi_cal869]

Yeah, where ARE the Awan Bros? /s

[logi_cal869]

Perhaps THIS is the real reason Krebs was fired.

Oh, and if it has “Russian fingerprints”, it ain’t the Russians.