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Microsoft Warns of Chinese Hackers Spying on Cloud Technology

  • ‘Silk Typhoon’ group previously blamed in Treasury breach
  • Attackers hunting for details on US policy, investigations
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Microsoft Corp. warned that an advanced Chinese hacking group is waging a campaign of supply-chain attacks.

The company’s threat intelligence division said in a blog post Wednesday that the group, known as Silk Typhoon, was targeting remote management tools and cloud applications in order to spy on a range of companies and organizations in the US and abroad.