Russia Launches Attack to Gather Cloud Data from U.S. Gov't, Companies

Russia’s premier intelligence agency has launched another campaign to pierce thousands of U.S. government, corporate and think-tank computer networks, Microsoft officials and cybersecurity experts warned, only months after President Biden imposed sanctions on Moscow in response to a series of sophisticated spy operations it had conducted around the world. The new effort is “very large, and it is ongoing,” Tom Burt, one of Microsoft’s top security officers, said in an interview.