U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland arrives to address the staff on his first day at the Department of Justice March 11, 2021 in Washington, DC. The decision by Justice to dismantle âhundredsâ of web shells installed using Exchange Server vulnerabilities is being hailed as a landmark use of a new authority. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images)
The decision by the Department of Justice announced Tuesday to dismantle âhundredsâ of web shells installed using Exchange Server vulnerabilities, mitigating the threat to private servers in bulk, is being hailed as a landmark use of a new authority. But the move also invited concern among some in the cybersecurity community about the lack of any clear standard for when and how government may hack private systems.
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FBI hacks compromised Exchange servers as more companies get targeted
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In a possibly unprecedented move, the U.S. Federal Bureau Investigation has obtained a court order to allow it to hack compromised Microsoft Corp. Exchange Servers to remove vulnerabilities as more stories of Exchange servers being targeted continue to emerge.
The court order allowed the FBI to copy and remove malicious web shells from hundreds of vulnerable computers that were compromised by so-called Hafnium attacks first revealed by Microsoft security researchers March 2. Hafnium was described at the time as Chinese state-sponsored hackers targeting a number of recently identified vulnerabilities for which patches had been issued.
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