A U.S. Air Force network administrator working on a network control center (Official United States government work by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jerome Duhan, https://flic.kr/p/jD9Atv)
Just hours before the first group of Russian tanks crossed into Ukraine in February 2022, Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center discovered a new piece of “wiper” malware known as Foxblade “aimed at the country’s government ministries and financial institutions” and capable of wiping data from their computers.
As the New York Times reported, Microsoft quickly updated its virus detection systems to block the malicious code, and it contacted Anne Neuber
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