Microsoft is supporting Ukraine not only in word but also in deed, merging with more than 150 companies from 24 countries to counter Russia’s aggression. But it will still work with some organizations in Russia, such as schools and hospitals. The new reviews make it clear that this is short-lived.

Microsoft will eventually leave

Washington Post columnist David Ignatius asked Brad Smith about the remnants of jobs in Russia and the people who still work for the company there.

In the case of Russia, we, like everyone else, basically see our business shrinking and contracting and contracting and contracting, until in the end there is almost nothing left. will not stay. We really want to take care of the people who work for our company and try to remember how to give them the support I think they need and deserve, because they didn’t start this war,
Smith says.

The company continues to support some of its legacy contracts with non-sanctioned companies. It is likely that it will fulfill all its obligations under these agreements and will no longer enter into new ones. Thus, over time, they will become less and less until there is none left. Then Microsoft will abandon the invader market for good. It stopped selling its products and other financial transactions in March.

defending ukraine

The interview also talked about the company’s latest report, “Defending Ukraine: The First Lessons of Cyber ​​Warfare.” He claims that Russian hackers have carried out numerous operations against countries that support Ukraine. they were attacked 128 organizations in 42 countriesIncluding the United States, Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Norway. In addition, companies from Sweden and Finland were also affected, according to the report.

The document states that the targets of Russian criminals are government organizations, think tanks, humanitarian groups, etc. states that it is. About 29 percent of attacks were successful. In some cases, valuable data was stolen. The scale of the impact is difficult to assess, as many customers store the data in their systems rather than in the company’s “clouds”.

In an interview, Brad Smith said that Russia’s actions in the early days of the new invasion were “a series of waves of attacks” on Ukrainian networks that used “eight different families of malware” – all of them “designed to destroy hard drives in Ukraine.” Also, hacker attacks are physically physical combined with attacks.

We’ve seen how they combine cyberattacks with conventional weapons. One day in March they tried to break into the network area of ​​the nuclear power plant and shut it down, and the next day the soldiers tried and successfully captured the nuclear power plant.
Smith says.

The Microsoft president added that he never thought he and his company would face such a large-scale conflict, take part in military advisory operations, and take on such a huge responsibility.