Although it has been on our agenda lately with the artificial intelligence race, Microsofthas been dealing with a Russian hacker group since early 2024. The cyber attackers in question are senior executives at Microsoft to email accounts We’ve already heard he has access.

In its statement, Microsoft said these attackers hacked their email accounts. can only reach a very small percentage told. In addition, the company’s legal and cybersecurity departments were also attacked. According to the latest information, the attackers, who Microsoft calls Nobelium or Midnight Blizzard, have managed to gain access to some of the company’s source codes.

The source code can be used to take the attack one step further.

The attacks did not impact end users, the company said. However, attackers found information through the emails they had access to. through confidential information They started to focus on users as well as the company. Although it is not yet clear what the source code obtained is, Microsoft warned users to be careful, and on the other hand announced that it has taken extensive security measures.

Nobelium Microsoft, which oversees the group’s activities, also said it will continue to take action based on the findings. He also said that he would not hesitate to share his findings openly.

The company was subjected to a cyber attack just days after announcing it would be making a radical change in security. The Nobelium group, which managed to gain access to a test account whose two-step verification was not possible with the brute-force method, then proceeded to obtain the source code, as we saw.

We will keep you informed with Microsoft’s statements.