Microsoft: Russian cyber spying targets 42 Ukraine allies


A file photo of a security surveillance camera near the Microsoft office building in Beijing. Half of the 128 organisations targeted are government agencies and 12% are nongovernmental agencies, typically think tanks or humanitarian groups, according to the 28-page report. — AP

CLEVELAND: Coinciding with unrelenting cyberattacks against Ukraine, state-backed Russian hackers have engaged in “strategic espionage” against governments, think tanks, businesses and aid groups in 42 countries supporting Kyiv, Microsoft said in a report on June 22.

“Since the start of the war, the Russian targeting (of Ukraine's allies) has been successful 29% of the time,” Microsoft President Brad Smith wrote, with data stolen in at least one-quarter of the successful network intrusions,

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