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The US will ban the sale of anti-virus products made by Russian vendor Kaspersky to American customers from July onwards, a report says.

Close on the heels of its move to tighten the screws on China with respect to chip exports, the United States has now decided to revoke licences for supply of Intel and Qualcomm hardware to Huawei Technologies.

Microsoft has issued a second post about the attack on its systems by an alleged Russian actor, revealing that the same actor also attacked a number of other organisations, one of which was HPE.

Attackers claimed to be backed by Russia were inside Microsoft's corporate systems for nearly two months before the company detected their presence, it says in a blog post published on Friday.

The US has tightened its restrictions on exports of semiconductors and equipment associated with them to China.

China has resurrected charges that go back more than a decade, accusing the NSA of hacking into the servers of telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies from 2009 onwards.

Nearly three months after its Azure cloud was breached, Microsoft says the "probable" cause was the cracking of a staff engineer's corporate account.

Microsoft has made no mention of a critical security flaw in its Azure cloud platform in its monthly issues of patches on Tuesday, though the company claimed earlier this month that it had completely fixed the issue.

Microsoft claims it has completely fixed a critical security issue in its Azure cloud platform, found in March by researchers from security firm Tenable, who then told Microsoft about it. Tenable chief executive and chairman Amit Yoran had claimed in a blog post on Wednesday that it took more than 90 days for Microsoft to effect a partial fix.

Microsoft was notified in March about a critical flaw in its Azure platform by security firm Tenable, but the company took more than 90 days to effect a fix that was only partial, Tenable chairman and chief executive Amit Yoran claims.

Microsoft has no plans to clarify issues about the breach of its Azure cloud environment, which are still hazy, the company says.

US Senator Ron Wyden has asked the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to hold Microsoft responsible for its "negligent cyber-security practices, which enabled a successful Chinese espionage campaign against the US Government".

New York-based cloud security firm Wiz has warned companies and organisations affected by the recent Microsoft Azure breach that the impact of the intrusion may be much wider than reported, and could affect applications beyond those claimed by Microsoft to be impacted.

Attackers believed to be from China breached the American envoy's email account, in the same attack that affected the State and Commerce Departments, the Wall Street Journalreports.

An American semiconductor industry lobby group has urged the government not to impose any more restrictions on the Chinese market until the impact of existing curbs is properly assessed.

The email account of US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was among a slew of accounts breached at both the State and Commerce Departments by attackers, claimed to be from China, who gained access through a vulnerability in Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.

The US is considering the use of a national security law harking back to the Cold War-era to force companies that are part of the semiconductor supply chain to provide confidential data about their operations if they do not respond with answers in 45 days.

ANALYSIS An American demand that semiconductor manufacturers provide internal information about chip inventories, orders and sales data appears to be aimed at helping Intel which has fallen well behind.

Three Republican senators have called for blacklisting Honor Device, a low-budget smartphone firm that was formerly owned by Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies.