Iran accelerates cyber ops against Israel from chaotic start
Feb 6, 2024 · Iran uses overt and covert IRGC-linked media outlets to amplify alleged cyber operations and, at times, exaggerate their effects. In September, after Cyber Avengers …
Espionage fuels global cyberattacks - Microsoft On the Issues
Oct 5, 2023 · While headlines about cyberattacks from the past year focused on ransomware, data shows the predominant motivation has swung back to stealing information, covertly …
Protecting Democratic Institutions from Cyber Threats
Oct 3, 2024 · Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) disrupts the infrastructure of Russian nation-state actor Star Blizzard, seizing 66 domains used in cyberattacks. In collaboration with the …
Escalating cyber threats demand stronger global defense and …
Oct 15, 2024 · Discover the alarming rise in cyber threats, with attacks on Microsoft customers doubling to 600 million per day. The latest Microsoft Digital Defense Report reveals the …
Defending Ukraine: early lessons from the cyber war
Jun 22, 2022 · The Russian invasion relies in part on a cyber strategy that includes at least three distinct and sometimes coordinated efforts – destructive cyberattacks within Ukraine, network …
Enhancing NATO’s security resilience through technology innovation
Apr 24, 2025 · A serious cyberattack or the cumulative impact of several malicious cyberattacks, Loutas explained, could trigger NATO’s collective defense clause. Sharing real-time threat …
New nation-state cyberattacks - Microsoft On the Issues
Mar 2, 2021 · New nation-state cyberattacks Mar 2, 2021 | Tom Burt - Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust Today, we’re sharing information about a state-sponsored threat …
Extortion and ransomware drive over half of cyberattacks
Oct 16, 2025 · Microsoft launches its sixth annual Digital Defense Report, highlighting trends from July 2024 to June 2025, including that over half of cyberattacks with known motives were …
A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global …
Dec 17, 2020 · In a world where authoritarian countries are launching cyberattacks against the world’s democracies, it is more important than ever for democratic governments to work …
Digital technology and the war in Ukraine - Microsoft On the Issues
Feb 28, 2022 · All of us who work at Microsoft are following closely the tragic, unlawful and unjustified invasion of Ukraine. This has become both a kinetic and digital war, with horrifying …