After another Nobelium cyberattack, Microsoft has emphasized the need to differentiate between "espionage as usual" acts and crippling attacks like SolarWinds. It has encouraged cloud adoption too.
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Microsoft has open sourced the CodeQL queries that it used to identify malicious code implants from the Solorigate attack. CodeQL is an analysis engine used for code inspection, among other things.
Microsoft has concluded that the Solorigate attacker was only able to get access to a small number of code files for Azure, Exchange, and Intune, and those did not contain live customer data.