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Get miles from the Microsoft Exchange podrían estar afectados.
A powerful hack into Microsoft’s e-mail service has taken decades of organizational miles.
And the scale of the apparent filtration is starting at dimensional, according to the specialists.
Microsoft asegura holds an “alto nivel de confianza” and this is haoi en grupo de atacantes patrocinados por China, algo que Pekín niega.
Last week, when the attack was announced, it was thought to be limited, but the lie was reported. increase in the use of these tactics, quizas debido a que otros hackers The debilitating system is being publicized, according to Gordon Corera, the BBC’s security correspondent.
Joe Tidy, the BBC’s technology correspondent, states that although many can think that this is simply another crisis, cyber security is in fact being hacked. “extremely serious”.
Brian Krebs, IT security specialist, describes the attack as “unusually aggressive”.
The principle is that one 30,000 organizations af Estados Unidos podrían haberse visto afectadas.
Now, without embarrassment, it is believed that the future will be around 60,000 victims, following a report from the agency Bloomberg which cites an anonymous source from the governor of EE.UU.
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The specialists consider that it is an “extremely serious” attack.
By EE.UU. he was reported missing.
This Monday, the European Banking Authorityea confirm that their mail servers are compromised by this fault hackeo.
Among the blanks that Microsoft is considering an opaque view can be local governments, small businesses and exchanges large banks.
Microsoft Exchange is a widely used electronic mail service widely used companies and governors, but now he has some organizations and admits he has been the victim of the attack.
During the end of the week, the authorities of EE.UU. would like to know that this situation represents a “active assets”.
What is the reason for the attack?
Because of the 2nd marzo, Microsoft provided information about its systems that set up its atacados.
This filtering addresses a Microsoft Exchange vulnerability, or a robotic robbery, to make it easier for someone to do so authorized access to the system.
If logs are ingrained in this way, the attacker can take control of the correct way of remembering and robust dates.
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Filtration may allow access to the private data of the victim.
Accusations against China
Microsoft had a group known as Hafnium to be responsible for the attack on China’s governor.
China ha negado the charges.
Microsoft calls han Hafnium “main attack entities in EE.UU.”, a wealth of information on organizations such as “infectious disease investigators, law firms, educational institutions, defense contractors, public policy training centers and NGOs”.
The Huntress cyber security company, without embarrassment, says that 300 of its companies that do not comply with this profile have been affected.
Between these local governing bodies, health centers, banks and electric companies, there are also other “menus sexy“ as a heladería, small hotels and seniors.
Fuera de EE.UU. The European Banking Authority informs that it is infiltrated and that the attacking powder has access to personal data.
What is Microsoft doing?
The notice of hackeo led by the EE.UU Infrastructure and Cyber Security Agency. (Cisa) has published an emergency directive calling it the agencies and departments that it has medidas urgentes.
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Jake Sullivan, Casa Blanca’s National Security Assessor, is in charge of dismantling the antiquities security parks.
Jake Sullivan, Casa Blanca’s National Security Assessor, has also joined the owners of these systems to secure the safe antiquities parks.
Microsoft has not confirmed the number of victims it has reported, but it says it is working on the EE.UU governing body.
Users will be informed that the “best protection” is “make” updates as soon as possible in all the affected systems “.
It is also important that you implement some mitigation techniques designed to help those who are unable to update quickly, to warn you that there is no solution and their Exchange servers have been compromised. is a total protection against attacks“.
Microsoft stated that the attack was not related to the attack. SolarWinds, which affected the government agencies of EE.UU. the finals of the past year.
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Cybercrime organizations can address Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities.
Analysis by Joe Tidy, BBC technology correspondent
If a reader is disappointed, the perpetrator will consider that this is nothing more than a cybersecurity crisis.
Al fin y al cabo, el gobierno de EE.UU. todavia is suffering from the generalized attacks of SolarWinds that will occur in December.
Pero el hackeo Microsoft Exchange is extremely serious about various reasons.
The SolarWinds attack was fired. It seems that Russia is robust intelligence of national security of EE.UU.
In the case of Microsoft Exchange is a team of hackers chinos called Hafnium, pero his motives are less clear.
Some small government agencies can be affected, but the victims here are a lot of people more diverse of organizations, from large banks to small companies.
Además, except that is multiplying the number of computer pirates that approve the new technologies developed by Hafnium.
Attacks that have been reported are as numerous as there are indications of other groups, including gangs of ciberdelincuentes, también podrían estar involucrándose.
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