George Kurtz, co-founder and CEO of Crowdstrike Inc., speaks during the Montgomery Summit in Santa Monica, California.
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The suspected Russian hackers accused of hacking a number of US government agencies and cybersecurity company FireEye also made a failed attempt to hack into cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-Based company said in a statement. blog.
CrowdStrike said it was alerted by Microsoft on December 15 that hackers tried to read CrowdStrike emails using a Microsoft reseller account “several months ago”.
CrowdStrike said on his blog that the attempt failed.
Microsoft did not immediately return a message asking for comment on Thursday. The National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency did not return messages immediately.
Using a Microsoft reseller to try to get into one of the top digital defense companies raises new questions about how many different locations hackers have had to infiltrate American networks.
Until now, Texas-based SolarWinds was the only publicly confirmed vector for hacking, although authorities have warned for days that hackers have also used other unspecified means to subvert their targets.
Separately, SolarWinds said on Thursday that it released an update to fix the vulnerabilities in its main network management software, Orion, after the discovery of a second set of hackers targeting the company’s products.
The announcement follows a blog post published by Microsoft on Friday that said SolarWinds had its software targeted by a second group of hackers, in addition to those linked to Russia.
The identity of the second set of hackers, or the degree to which they may have successfully hacked anywhere, remains unclear.
Russia has denied any role in hacking.
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