12 European countries to receive service Microsoft cyber security

Young journalists club

News ID: 35669
Publish Date: 13:02 - 20 February 2019
TEHRAN, Feb 20 - New markets in 12 European countries including Germany, France and Spain will receive Microsoft offer for cyber security services.

TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Microsoft Corp announced on Wednesday that it will prepare the countries with an AccountGuard cyber security service to fill their security gaps and protect customers in political space from hacking.

Microsoft had recently detected attacks, which occurred between September and December 2018, targeting employees of the German Council on Foreign Relations and European offices of The Aspen Institute and The German Marshall Fund.

The attacks, which targeted 104 employee accounts in Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Romania, and Serbia, are believed to have originated from a group called Strontium, the company added.

The AccountGuard service will also be available in Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal and Slovakia.

Ahead of a critical European Parliament election in May, German officials are trying to bolster cyber security after a far-reaching data breach by a 20-year-old student laid bare the vulnerability of Europe’s largest economy.

Source: Reuters

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