Hacks

Microsoft issued a serious warning about the recent cyber activities that target the Government and private sector to compromise the high profile email accounts. The attack believed to be initiated from Iran state-sponsored hacking group called Phosphorus and is linked with the Iran government to perform various cyber-attacks around the world. Microsoft has been tracking the Phosphorus ( APT 35 or Charming Kitten) threat group since 2013, and the group’s main motivation is to gain access to businesses and government agencies computer systems and steal sensitive information. During the end of March 2019, GBHackers on Security  reported  that Microsoft authorized to seize 99 illegal domains operated by the APT 35 aka Phosphorus for various illegal hacking operations.  Over the last 30 days, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center learned that the cybercriminals make more than 2,700 attempts to identify consumer email accounts belonging to specific Microsoft customers and finally