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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced a Microsoft Exchange Server joint advisory (AA-21-069) on Wednesday that offers consolidated advice for Exchange Server users on detecting Hafnium attacks.
The advice, which offers practical measures for IT pros to take, is based on republished materials, and was partially derived from multiple open source reports. Organizations using Exchange Server products currently are under active attack by a supposed nation-state attacker, dubbed Hafnium, via zero-day vulnerabilities in those products. Microsoft s Exchange Online serviced isn t considered to be vulnerable, though.
In general, CISA and the FBI are advising organizations running Exchange Server to look for indicators of compromise using various tools and logs. If indicators of compromise are detected and organizations lack forensic skills for further investigation, then they shoul
ProxyLogon PoC Exploit Released; Likely to Fuel More Disruptive Cyber Attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Wednesday issued a joint advisory warning of active exploitation of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange on-premises products by nation-state actors and cybercriminals. CISA and FBI assess that adversaries could exploit these vulnerabilities to compromise networks, steal information, encrypt data for ransom, or even execute a destructive attack, the agencies said. Adversaries may also sell access to compromised networks on the dark web.
The attacks have primarily targeted local governments, academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, and business entities in various industry sectors, including agriculture, biotechnology, aerospace, defense, legal services, power utilities, and pharmaceutical, which the agencies say are in line with previous activity conducted by Chinese cyber
Microsoft’s Brad Smith Drags AWS, Google Over SolarWinds Response
‘There are other companies that. have not even alerted their customers or others that they were a victim of a SolarWinds-based attack. These are companies where their own infrastructure was used to launch the attack,’ says Microsoft’s Brad Smith. By Michael Novinson February 26, 2021, 05:53 PM EST
Microsoft President Brad Smith criticized top rivals Amazon Web Services and Google Friday for not publicly sharing what they know about the SolarWinds attack.
Smith told House of Representatives members that the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant has published 32 blogs describing whatever Microsoft has observed and seen from the SolarWinds attackers during their campaign, while Google has published just one blog and Amazon hasn’t published anything. AWS admitted Thursday the SolarWinds hackers used its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in their attack.