On Friday, the US company Microsoft announced a cyber attack on its IT infrastructure by alleged Russian hackers. Microsoft traced the attack back to the hacker group Midnight Blizzard.
The company claims that the attack has nothing to do with vulnerabilities in its products or services. “State-sponsored” hack attacks are particularly common in times of international crises or wars, writes Frank Rumpenhorst. But politically, secret service or military motivated attacks are quickly lost in the background noise of these attacks, he says.