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Jonathan Tepperman, Yaron Rosen, Robert Muggah

Russia’s Hacking Success Shows How Vulnerable the Cloud Is

U.S. Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen at a press conference concerning a hacking campaign tied to the Chinese government at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington on Sept. 16, 2020. TASOS KATOPODIS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Russia’s Sunburst cyberespionage campaign, discovered late last year, impacted more than 100 large companies and U.S. federal agencies, including the Treasury, Energy, Justice, and Homeland Security departments. A crucial part of the Russians’ success was their ability to move through these organizations by compromising cloud and local network identity systems to then access cloud accounts and pilfer emails and files.

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