Microsoft Warns Thousands of Cloud Customers of Exposed Databases: Reuters August 27, 2021 By Joseph Menn Microsoft on Thursday warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world’s largest companies, that intruders could...
Kaseya Ransomware Attack Triggers Race to Hack Other Managed Services Providers August 5, 2021 By Joseph Menn A ransomware attack in July that paralyzed as many as 1,500 organizations by compromising tech-management software from a company called...
Microsoft Finds New Breach When Probing Suspected SolarWinds Hackers June 28, 2021 By Joseph Menn Microsoft said on Friday an attacker had won access to one of its customer-service agents and then used information from...
Under Pressure, Ransomware Gangs Claim They’re Shutting Down May 17, 2021 By Joseph Menn Multiple ransomware groups claimed they were shutting down or scaling back operations on Friday as the U.S. government ramped up...
Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attackers Say They Seek Cash, Not Chaos May 10, 2021 By Raphael Satter and Joseph Menn The ransomware gang accused of crippling the leading U.S. fuel pipeline operator said on Monday that it never meant to...
White House to Require Software Firms to Disclose Breaches to Government Customers March 26, 2021 By Nandita Bose, Christopher Bing and Joseph Menn A planned Biden administration executive order will require many software vendors to notify their federal government customers when the companies...
Hacks of Microsoft Outlook Email Program Continue Despite Patch March 7, 2021 By Trevor Hunnicutt, Raphael Satter and Joseph Menn More than 20,000 U.S. organizations have been compromised through a back door installed via recently patched flaws in Microsoft Corp.’s...
Senator Says Microsoft Failed to Fix Cloud Software Issue Used by SolarWinds Hackers February 26, 2021 By Joseph Menn Microsoft Corp.’s failure to fix known problems with its cloud software facilitated the massive SolarWinds hack that compromised at least...
How Dominance of One Management Software Became Cyber Liability for U.S. December 16, 2020 By Raphael Satter, Christopher Bing and Joseph Menn On an earnings call two months ago, SolarWinds Chief Executive Kevin Thompson touted how far the company had gone during...
Suspected Russian Cyber Espionage Has U.S. Government, Businesses Scrambling December 15, 2020 By Joseph Menn, Raphael Satter and Jack Stubbs The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and thousands of businesses scrambled Monday to investigate and respond to a sweeping hacking...