Cyberattacks originating in Russia accounted for more than half of intrusions tracked by Microsoft since mid-2020, the company said in a report released Thursday.<\/p>\n
New report:<\/strong>\u00a0The findings were detailed in Microsoft\u2019s\u00a0annual Digital Defense Report<\/a>. The company said it tracked threat activity from a number of countries, but found that 58 percent of attacks reported by customers originated in Russia, followed by North Korea at 23 percent.<\/p>\n \u201cOver the past year, Russia-based activity groups have solidified their position as acute threats to the global digital ecosystem,\u201d the report states. \u201cThey have also shown a high tolerance for collateral damage, which leaves anyone with connections to targets of interest vulnerable to opportunistic targeting.\u201d<\/p>\n The report went on to say that more than 90 percent of the Russian-linked threat activity was carried out by a threat group Microsoft named \u201cNobelium,\u201d which the company\u00a0blamed in May<\/a>\u00a0for using a U.S. Agency for International Development email marketing account to target hundreds of organizations in two dozen countries, including government agencies.<\/p>\n U.S. hit hard:<\/strong>\u00a0Microsoft found that the U.S. was the most targeted nation by far, accounting for almost half of attacks between July 2020 and June 2021. By contrast, Ukraine was the second most targeted country, with 19 percent of threat activity aimed within its borders.<\/p>\n