Espionage, love and hatred, are not the central themes of the next James Bond movie. This is a new confrontation between Google and Microsoft for a vulnerability in the Windows security 10 that, apparently, was exploited by a group of hackers associated with the Russian government and with the cyber attacks to the Democratic National Committee.
The company founded by Bill Gates, just, yesterday recognized the existence of this fault in the latest version of your operating system, which was being exploited by cybersquatters suspected of having carried out attacks against political institutions americans.
The group in question, which Microsoft called Strontium, launched a campaign of attacks against government agencies, or diplomatic institutions and military, wrote Terry Myerson, vice president of the company and in charge of Windows, in the blog of the group.
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Strontium, which also received other names, is usually pointed out by the experts in cyber security as well as an operation of hacking sophisticated ties with Russia. It’s even suspect that it is responsible for having hacked the servers of the Democratic Party.
a week Ago, Google had revealed to the public the existence of a security flaw “particularly serious” in Windows 10, which allowed the attackers access to personal information and that is “being actively exploited”, and Microsoft questioned the Internet giant for not leaving him time to repair it.
“we Believe in the discovery of coordinated vulnerabilities, but Google put the customers into a potential risk,” he said last night a spokesman for Microsoft told the site VenturBeat.
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