The recently discovered Chinese cyber-espionage campaign against key endpoints in the West continues to send out ripples through the cybersecurity world, as Microsoft announces plans to offer some of its tools for free. A report by the Wall Street Journal claims the Redmond giant is planning on offering some security tools for free, including those that were used by the State Department to spot the intrusion in the first place. This follows a June 2023 incident where the US State Department informed Microsoft of an intrusion in its email inbox. Further analysis discovered that a Chinese threat actor, known as…