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On a Saturday night, a security engineer at Equifax was updating an SSL certificate on a Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS). Immediately after, suspicious connections were detected. After a more in-depth investigation, it became evident that the situation was far graver than anticipated. A service had to be promptly shut down to prevent further exploitation, but by that point, the damage was already done. Malicious actors had been exfiltrating data for several months and had already collected personal information from 163 million customers.

The Federal Government has ignored the pleas of technology industry bodies and passed a bill that will enable it to take control of private infrastruc...

Does FBI Exchange Remediation Action Set a Precedent? annamadeline) • April 16, 2021     13 Minutes    Twitter Get Permission The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of whether the FBI removing malicious web shells from hundreds of compromised Microsoft Exchange Servers could set a precedent. In this report, you'll hear (click on player beneath image to listen): ISMG’s Mathew Schwartz describe how fraudsters nearly stole $17.5 million via PPE fraud; Edna Conway of M...

By Mike Lennon on April 14, 2021 FBI agents executed a court-authorized cyber operation to delete malicious web shells from hundreds of previously hacked Microsoft Exchange servers in the United States, unbeknownst to their owners, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said Tuesday. After a wave of major in-the-wild zero-day attacks against Exchange Server installations that occurred globally in January, savvy organizations scrambled to lock down vulnerable Microsoft email servers and remove web shells that were installed by attackers.  In early attacks observed by Microsoft, attackers were ...

iTWire Wednesday, 14 April 2021 17:54 FBI cleans up Web shells on Microsoft Exchange Server installations Featured Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay The FBI has intervened to clean up the mess left by attacks on on-premise Microsoft Exchange Server installations after obtaining court orders to access hundreds of vulnerable machines in the US and remove Web shells. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Department of Justice said these servers had been exploited in January and February by some groups who used zero-day vulnerabilities that Microsoft public...