Biden blames China for cyberattack on Microsoft, NATO forms cybersecurity alliance

Updated : Jul 20, 2021 07:18
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Editorji News Desk

The Biden government blamed China for the cyber attack on the Microsoft Exchange email server software earlier this year. The US president got backing from NATO allies in calling out China's "malicious cyber activities."

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Microsoft Exchange server attack became public in March and affected around 30,000 American organizations. Microsoft identified the group behind the hack as a relatively unknown Chinese espionage network dubbed Hafnium.

Further, the new cybersecurity alliance of NATO is focused on combating the new world of war of rising cyberwarfare.

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