Microsoft struggling to fight off Russian cyberspies

Microsoft is still struggling to keep out the Russian cyberspies that gained high-level access to the company late last year, the company announced Friday. Those hackers have in recent weeks gained access to some key company secrets, including digital vaults where the company keeps source code for some of its programs, the company said in a blog post. Microsoft said the hackers are members of a group that the cybersecurity industry and U.S. and U.K.

Adam Meyers, the senior vice president for counteradversary operations at the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, said that the type of valuable government information that Microsoft holds could be ripe for Russian influence operations aimed at destabilizing the country’s targets. “What is significant here is that Microsoft has a tremendous amount of data of the United States government and other governments,” Meyers said.

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