Russia’s shadow war against Europe has begun as cyber attacks abusing Microsoft infrastructure increase

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New research from cybersecurity firm Heimdal has showed a huge spike in brute force attacks against corporate and institutional networks across Europe, with most of the attacks originating in Russia.

Brute force attacks are used to gain access to accounts and systems by using trial and error to guess weak passwords.