As stated by Microsoft, cyber spies backed by the Russian forces, which were a reason for the SolarWinds Hacker campaign, launched a spear-phishing attack targeted towards the U.S and foreign government agencies and think tanks earlier this week with the help of an email marketing account of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
As per the trusted reports, the scammers targeted about 3,000 email accounts of over 150 different companies, among which at least one-fourth of them were a part of the international development, humanitarian, and human rights work, as stated by Tom Burt, Microsoft Vice President, in a blog on Thursday.
But, his blog said that the phishing campaign looked like a consistent and continuous effort put by the Russian Hacker with a major aim to target the government agencies that are involved in the foreign policies, which are a part of intelligence gathering efforts.
He further stated that the targets had spanned at least 24 countries.In a separate blog post, Microsoft stated that the attacker’s campaign is still on, and they have evolved across several waves of spear-phishing campaigns, which were first detected in January, leading to the mass mailings of this week.
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