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It is a little over a week since Microsoft Exchange email servers were attacked by a group which Microsoft as described as a network of hackers it calls Hafnium. It is not clear who these people are, but the attack, which impacted as many as 60,000 companies â€” and by some estimates 100,000 â€” has forced Microsoft to release out of-band emergency patches for Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016, and Exchange Server 2019. Exchange Attack Spreading? The situation is so bad, in f...

March 8, 2021 Sometimes when a complex story takes us by surprise or knocks us back on our heels, it pays to revisit the events in a somewhat linear fashion. Here’s a brief timeline of what we know leading up to last week’s mass-hack, when hundreds of thousands of When did Microsoft find out about attacks on previously unknown vulnerabilities in Exchange? Pressed for a date when it first became aware of the problem, Microsoft told KrebsOnSecurity it was initially notified “in early J...