US aid agency system used to carry out cyberattacks by Russia: Microsoft | #cybersecurity | #cyberattack | #education | #technology | #infosec

Hackers linked to Russia’s main intelligence agency surreptitiously seized an email system used by the State Department’s international aid agency to burrow into the computer networks of human rights groups and other organizations of the sort that have been critical of President Vladimir V. Putin, Microsoft Corporation disclosed…