George Kurtz, co-founder and CEO of Crowdstrike Inc., speaks at the Montgomery Summit in Santa Monica, California.
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Suspects of Russian hackers have been blamed for breaking into a number of US government agencies and cybersecurity company FireEye has also made a failed attempt to break into cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, the Sunnyvale, California-based company said. , in a blog post.
CrowdStrike said it was alerted by Microsoft on Dec. 15 that hackers tried to read CrowdStrike’s emails using a Microsoft reseller’s account “a few months ago.”
CrowdStrike said in its blog post that the attempt failed.
Microsoft did not immediately return a message requesting comments on Thursday. The National Security Agency and the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Agency did not immediately return messages.
Using a Microsoft reseller to try to break into a top digital defense company raises new questions about how many different places hackers have had to infiltrate American networks.
So far, Texas-based SolarWinds has been the only publicly confirmed burglary vector, although officials have been warning for days that hackers have used other unspecified ways to reverse their targets.
Separately, SolarWinds said on Thursday that it had released an update to fix the vulnerabilities of its network management software, Orion, following the discovery of a second set of hackers targeting the company’s products.
The announcement follows a blog post published on Friday by Microsoft, in which it was said that SolarWinds had the software targeted by a second group of hackers, unrelated to it, in addition to those related to Russia.
It remains unclear the identity of the second set of hackers or the degree to which they managed to successfully enter anywhere.
Russia has denied any involvement in the hacking.
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