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Microsoft on Thursday disclosed a wide-scale cyberattack that it says is being operated by hackers linked to Russian intelligence, the same ones behind the SolarWinds hack. The hackers gained access to the email system used by US Agency for International Development — a State Department agency focused on foreign aid and sent malicious emails to “around 3,000 individual accounts across more than 150 organizations,” according to a threat alert from Microsoft. 

Microsoft said the hacking campaign is still active and that some malicious emails were sent as recently as this…