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Get Permission Microsoft issued emergency software patches on Tuesday for four zero-day vulnerabilities in its Exchange email server, one of the most widely used pieces of enterprise infrastructure. The company says it believes the flaws have been exploited by a China-based group it calls Hafnium, which is seeking to gain persistent access to email systems. Microsoft typically issues patches for Windows and other products on the second Tuesday of every month, but it makes exceptions for security vulnerabilities that are deemed particularly dangerous. Although Microsoft describes the attack...

IT admins have been urged to urgently patch on-premise Exchange Server systems

Microsoft Urges Exchange Server Users To Install Emergency Patch Immediately KEY POINTS Hackers exploit four distinct zero-day vulnerabilities of the Exchange Server To prevent highly skilled hackers from exploiting the vulnerabilities of the Exchange Server, Microsoft has urged its users to install the recently released emergency patch as soon as possible. The update assumes significance as China-based hackers' group, Hafnium, recently used unknown exploits to hack a fully patched on-premise exchange server.  Reports say that Hafnium is a state-sponsored, highly sophisticated threat actor...

COVID-19 Vaccine and Cyber espionage News Highlights: COVID-19 Vaccine and Cyber espionage. Less than a year after the first Covid-19 death was reported from China, the first clinically approved vaccine was administered by Pfizer-BioNtech to Margaret Keenan in the United Kingdom (UK) on December 8, 2020. The Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine, a messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine, is the fastest vaccine ever developed. Subsequently, a handful of other vaccines have also been marketed, including by Oxford-AstraZeneca in the UK, Moderna in the US, Sinovac and Sinopharm in China, Bharat Biotech in...

Cyber attacks: The new headache for drug regulators reviewing Covid-19 vaccines Germany’s BioNTech has said the hackers who breached EU drug regulator European Medicines Agency had accessed documents relating to the regulatory submission for the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine candidate. Three pharma companies have applied for emergency use authorisation of their COVID-19 vaccines in India EU drug regulator European Medicines Agency, which is reviewing the emergency-use applications filed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna for their respective Covid-19 vaccines, has been hit by a cyberattack. ...