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  Microsoft says Russia behind most nation-state cyber-attacks Microsoft Corp. has issued 13,000 alerts about nation-state hacking attempts to its customers in the last two years, with 52% of incidents between July 2019 and June 2020 related to Russian hackers -- whose targets have ranged from elections to the Olympics, according to a report   Microsoft Takes Down a Risk to the Election and Finds the U.S. Doing the Same Fearing Russian ransomware attacks on the election, the company and U.S. Cyber Command mounted similar pre-emptive strikes. It is not clear how long they may work.     A new website predicts the likelihood of cyber-attacks between nations A new online database developed by a team of Johns Hopkins University computer scientists and international studies students predicts that there is an “extremely high likelihood” of a Russian cyberattack on Ukraine. Prolific Cybercrime Group Now Focused on Ransomware The Cybercriminal team previously associated with ...