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Joins allies in condemning offensive cyber campaigns. By Casey Tonkin on Jul 20 2021 10:29 AM Print article Australia has pointed the finger at China for the Microsoft Exchange exploits. Image: Shutterstock Australia has joined strategic allies including the UK, US, and European Union in blaming China for its involvement in the Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities found earlier this year. In a joint statement from the Ministers for Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, and Defence, the government issued its pointed statement against China‘s Ministry of State Security for dev...

Thursday, March 11, 2021 As we alerted our readers last week, Microsoft announced that its Exchange email servers have been compromised, which is estimated to affect at least 30,000 companies based in the United States. It is reported that the hackers installed web shells (and sometimes multiple web shells) into Microsoft’s customers’ email servers, giving the hackers back doors into the victims’ email content. These web shells allow the attackers to have complete remote control over the victims’ emails and to access other information technology assets of the victims. This m...

Thinkstock On March 2, Microsoft revealed a critical cybersecurity offensive launched by a foreign adversary against organizations in the United States. The company attributed the attacks to a Chinese advanced persistent threat group it calls Hafnium. Microsoft quickly announced patches for the four previously unknown vulnerabilities in Exchange Server that the malicious actors had exploited.  Reports circulated last week that the hackers compromised at least 30,000, and likely hundreds of thousands, of unpatched Exchange servers. As a consequence, incident responders are w...

Patch Tuesday overshadowed by Microsoft Exchange attacks Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday update drops amid ongoing fall-out from widespread Exchange attacks Share this item with your network: By Published: 10 Mar 2021 11:40 Microsoft has patched a total of 89 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) in its latest Patch Tuesday update, which dropped on 9 March, including 14 bugs rated as critical – but the latest round of updates is overshadowed by the developing crisis around four CVEs disclosed last week in an out-of-band patch for Microsoft Exchange Server. The ongoing situation...

IT teams have a long road ahead of them as they work to find and root out all vestiges of the Hafnium hack in their Microsoft Exchange systems.