Microsoft Publishes Veiled Mea Culpa Disguised as Research
Microsoft released a report on malicious activity they are attributing to a Russian threat actor that seems to suggest that Microsoft platforms and products were compromised...
Lital Asher-Dotan
Sandworm is a strain of malware, used in Russian cyber-espionage campaign targeting NATO, European Union, Telecommunications and Energy sectors in 2014.
The attack relies on a zero day vulnerability in Windows known as CVE-2014-4114, patched in Bulletin MS14-060 of Microsoft’s October 2014 Patch Tuesday.
The name is rather dramatically borrowed from the famous 1960s science fiction epic Dune, where it refers to a sort of worm-like creature, hundreds or even thousands of metres long and as good as indestructible except with nuclear weapons.
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Microsoft released a report on malicious activity they are attributing to a Russian threat actor that seems to suggest that Microsoft platforms and products were compromised...
No matter how you justify the “savings” in bundling IT and Security spend together with a (still very expensive) E5 license, the fact is you’d essentially be paying Microsoft twice to protect you from… Microsoft...
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