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FBI accesses ProxyLogon target servers to disrupt cyber criminals
US Justice Department reveals successful court-authorised effort to clamp down on ProxyLogon exploitation
Share this item with your network: By Published: 14 Apr 2021 14:06
The US Justice Department has authorised the FBI to access systems vulnerable to the Microsoft Exchange Server ProxyLogon vulnerabilities to remove malicious web shells that had been installed.
The zero-day vulnerabilities – which were the subject of an emergency out-of-band patch from Microsoft in March 2021 – were heavily exploited by malicious actors throughout the first two months of the year to access on-premise instances of Exchange Server, compromise target email accounts, and place web shells to enable continued access.
Qualys caught up in Accellion FTA breach computerweekly.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from computerweekly.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The week in ransomware: Foxconn and Randstad are high-profile victims
Foxconn and Randstad are laid low by cyber criminals, while Sophos spills on Egregor, and prognosticators turn to their crystal balls to divine how ransomware will develop in the next 12 months
Share this item with your network: By Published: 11 Dec 2020 15:30
High-profile organisations falling victim to ransomware attacks during the week of 7 to 11 December 2020 have included electronics giant Foxconn and recruitment specialists Randstad, as the criminal gangs behind ransomware show no signs of letting up.
Foxconn’s Mexican chip fab facility, which was initially attacked over the Thanksgiving weekend at the end of November by the DoppelPaymer gang and was shut down as a result, is now returning to business as usual following the attack on its systems which saw stolen files published on DoppelPaymer’s leak site – mostly innocuous internal documents, according to reports. The cyber criminals behind