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A man talks on the phone walking along Red Square in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral in central Moscow on February 28, 2023. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)

New Russian state-sponsored APT quickly gains global reach, hitting expansive targets

Laundry Bear, a group recently identified by Dutch intelligence and security services, stole work-related contact details on the Netherlands’ national police force in September 2024, Microsoft researchers…
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Russian state threat group shifts focus to US, UK targets

A subgroup of Seashell Blizzard exploited public vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems, Microsoft researchers said.
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Microsoft calls out apparent ESXi vulnerability that some researchers say is a ‘nothing burger’ 

Attackers exploited the vulnerability by creating an admins group and adding new users to it, Microsoft researchers say.
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