The article is so light on detail that I can’t tell for sure, but it sounds like they’re just saying binaries were hosted on Azure infrastructure, not that they were necessarily being executed on Microsoft infrastructure. So they might not be any more infected than Google would be if I put a malicious binary in my Google Drive.
404, archive here: https://archive.vn/795yh
Strange, for me the page works but not the archive. I have made a new snapshot on the web archive, just in case: https://web.archive.org/web/20201218113458/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-breach-idUSKBN28R2ZJ
The article is so light on detail that I can’t tell for sure, but it sounds like they’re just saying binaries were hosted on Azure infrastructure, not that they were necessarily being executed on Microsoft infrastructure. So they might not be any more infected than Google would be if I put a malicious binary in my Google Drive.
Microsoft going full Stallman! And I thought their embrace of open source was a cynical ploy…
Nothing surprising. Proprietary software is malicious inherently.
C’mon now, Ioseb.