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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...

The twin hacking campaigns involve the US’s two most powerful cyberspace adversaries, and both have led to emergency meetings of the White House National Security Council, in part because of the unusually wide net cast by the attackers.

Over 20,000 US organisations have been compromised through a back door installed via recently patched flaws in Microsoft's email software, a person familiar with the US government's response said.

Microsoft said more than 40 organizations around the world, including in Canada, were targeted using network-management software from Texas-based SolarWinds