During the beginning of last month, one of the largest piracy operations that have been exposed to a number of major companies and institutions in the United States of America, in which Russian pirates have been accused of carrying out this operation, and today many facts have begun to unfold this electronic strike
According to the media, the matter is related to Microsoft, which revealed some developments in this regard, against the backdrop of its exposure, along with other parties, to a piracy operation through the tool SolarWinds, and Microsoft said in a statement: "We have discovered unusual activity with a small number of accounts The Ministry of Interior, upon examination, we discovered that an account was used to view the source code in a number of source code repositories, and the hackers were able to view the source code, but were unable to modify it, as there is no evidence of access to online services or customer data Additionally, there is no indication that our systems have been used to attack other people "
And a report by the American Washington Post had said that there was a large electronic campaign that was implemented by a group of Russian hackers under the name "APT29" and it is supported by the Russian foreign intelligence, according to the report, and this campaign targeted many American institutions, headed by the Ministry American commerce as well as a number of famous companies, including the information security company FireEye, which revealed earlier last week that it was vulnerable to piracy
And Washington Post press sources say that Russian hackers used SolarWinds, which is a publisher of computer infrastructure management programs, as they were able to penetrate its servers and distribute infected updates to the targeted users, noting that the company has more than 300,000 customers around the world, including balanced institutions such as a ministry The US Defense Pentagon, the US Army, the US Space Agency, NASA, and others