'Hackers' linked to Russia have attacked a Windows vulnerability


'Hackers' linked to Russia have attacked a Windows vulnerability



Microsoft has ensured that these cyber-pirates have exploited the ruling to attack US political institutions



   The US group Microsoft warned on Tuesday that a vulnerability of its Windows program, recently exposed by rival Google, was being exploited by cyber-pirates suspected of carrying out attacks against US political institutions.

   The group of pirates, which Microsoft calls 'Strontium', launched a campaign of attacks against specific targets, mainly government agencies or diplomatic and military institutions, wrote Terry Myerson, Microsoft vice president in charge of Windows, on the group's blog. Microsoft said that Strontium has the characteristics of groups of hackers that have the support of a state, without specifying which.

This group, which also received other names, is generally described by experts in cybersecurity as a sophisticated piracy operation that has ties with Russia. He is suspected of being responsible for recent piracy operations against the Democratic Party's servers. The Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence had denounced in early October an attempt by Moscow to "interfere in the US electoral process," which the Kremlin denied.

In the current case, the pirates combine their attacks with the exploitation of security flaws in Windows and Flash, an Adobe program, to install hidden doors in computers in order to enter them without any obstacle. It was not Microsoft but Google researchers who spread these flaws on Monday, calling them "particularly serious." They also said that they were being "actively exploited".

Myerson criticized that Google did not wait for the problem to be solved to ventilate it, "which exposed users to greater risks". Google responded that it had given Microsoft seven days to resolve the problem before making it public since October 21. Flash was updated five days later.

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