US National Nuclear Security Administration hit by cyberattack via Microsoft vulnerability

The NSA - the agency in charge of the US nuclear arsenal - is one of many targets targeted by hackers in the ToolShell campaign, which aims to take complete control of the system.

Bloomberg news agency on July 22 quoted sources saying that the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NSA) had become the target of a series of cyber attacks targeting Microsoft's SharePoint document management software.

According to Bloomberg, although the NSA's system was hacked, no classified data or sensitive information was stolen.

The NSA is part of the US Department of Energy and is responsible for designing and maintaining the country's nuclear arsenal.

Currently, the Department of Energy, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), as well as Microsoft, have not made any official comments.

Attacks were also recorded in Germany and several other European countries, mainly targeting organizations that use SharePoint to share internal documents and support teamwork.

Sectors affected include government, defense industry, banking and healthcare .

According to security experts, these attacks are part of a campaign called “ToolShell,” which allows hackers to take complete control of the system, install backdoors for long-term access, and even extend to connected services such as Microsoft Teams and OneDrive./.

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