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Begin forwarded message: > From: Monty Solomon <[email protected]> > Date: March 1, 2022 at 12:55:42 EST > Subject: As Tanks Rolled Into Ukraine, So Did Malware. Then Microsoft Entered > the War. > > As Tanks Rolled Into Ukraine, So Did Malware. Then Microsoft Entered the War. > > After years of talks about the need for public-private partnerships to combat > cyberattacks, the war in Ukraine is stress-testing the system. > > WASHINGTON — Last Wednesday, a few hours before Russian tanks began rolling > into Ukraine, alarms went off inside Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center, > warning of a never-before-seen piece of “wiper” malware that appeared aimed > at the country’s government ministries and financial institutions. > > Within three hours, Microsoft threw itself into the middle of a ground war in > Europe — from 5,500 miles away. The threat center, north of Seattle, had been > on high alert, and it quickly picked apart the malware, named it “FoxBlade” > and notified Ukraine’s top cyberdefense authority. Within three hours, > Microsoft’s virus detection systems had been updated to block the code, which > erases — “wipes” — data on computers in a network. > > ... > > https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/us/politics/ukraine-russia-microsoft.html > >
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