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US warns China over state-sponsored hacking, citing mass attacks on Exchange

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | cbarnesphotography) The US government blamed the Chinese government on Monday for attacks on thousands of Microsoft Exchange servers. China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) “has fostered an ecosystem of criminal contract hackers who carry out both state-sponsored activities and cybercrime for their own financial gain, ” US Secretary of State […]

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Security unicorn: Exchange server 0-days were exploited by 6 APTs

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities that allow hackers to take over Microsoft Exchange servers are under attack by no fewer than 10 advanced hacking groups, six of which began exploiting them before Microsoft released a patch, researchers reported Wednesday. That raises a vexing mystery: how did so many separate threat actors have […]