Microsoft, Samsung, Okta ‘hacked’. Are these the Russian cyberattacks we were warned about?
Shortly after President Joe Biden warned of possible Russian cyberattacks, a group of hackers this week made news after targeting Microsoft and authentication service provider Okta.
But experts cautioned against linking the incident with Russia and the ongoing war with Ukraine.
“Obviously, if you just look at timing, you can be suspicious of it, but we don’t see any direct links between these individual incidents, from Okta to Microsoft, and Russia,” said Rick Holland, chief information security officer at the security firm Digital Shadows. “It’s evolving, and things could change.”