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FBI cleans up infected Exchange servers

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FBI cleans up infected Exchange servers

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Postby Infrasonic » April 15th, 2021, 11:16 am

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/fb ... e-servers/
Federal authorities in the U.S. have swooped in to eliminate malicious backdoor code planted by attackers on vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers across the country. In a news release published Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the court-authorized effort to copy and remove web shells that had been installed on on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server software. Web shells are malicious pieces of code that give attackers continuous remote administrative access to a compromised system.
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No doubt the fact that this malware attack is suspected of being a state sponsored one (China...) has prompted such a reaction from the US authorities.

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Re: FBI cleans up infected Exchange servers

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Postby Infrasonic » April 15th, 2021, 1:27 pm

https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/13/ ... day_april/

..."These new vulnerabilities were reported by a security partner through standard coordinated vulnerability disclosure and found internally by Microsoft. We have not seen the vulnerabilities used in attacks against our customers.

Clicking through Microsoft's coy links to CVE-2021-28480 (9.8 severity), CVE-2021-28481 (9.8 severity), CVE-2021-28482 (8.8 severity), and CVE-2021-28483 (9.0 severity), you'll find the unspecified security partner is the NSA...
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