Attacks on vulnerabilities in MS Exchange email servers
Last week Microsoft released emergency patches for security vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Exchange email servers. At the time of publication, Microsoft said the vulnerabilities were exposed to "targeted and limited" attacks. In the days that followed, however, the attacks skyrocketed. The American journalist and investigative reporter Brian Krebs has reported that 30.000 organizations in the United States and hundreds of thousands worldwide have been compromised by these attacks on Exchange. Other sources consider these estimates to be too low. Chris Krebs, former head of US CISA, said these attacks “will hit especially those who ...