As the Tanks Rolled into Ukraine, So Did Malware. Then Microsoft Entered the War.

Ukrainians gather in a train station in Kyiv in an effort to leave the city shortly after the Russian invasion began.Credit…Lynsey Addario for The New York Times WASHINGTON — Last Wednesday, a few hours before Russian tanks began rolling into Ukraine, alarms went off inside Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center, warning of a never-before-seen piece of “wiper” malware that appeared aimed at the country’s government ministries and financial institutions.

Within three hours, Microsoft threw itself into the middle of a ground war in Europe — from 5,500 miles away. The threat center, north of Seattle, had been on high alert, and […]

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