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WARNING: New Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day Under Active Exploitation

Security researchers are warning of previously undisclosed flaws in fully patched Microsoft Exchange servers being exploited by malicious actors in real-world attacks to achieve remote code execution on affected systems. The advisory comes from Vietnamese cybersecurity company GTSC, which discovered the shortcomings as part of its security monitoring and incident response efforts in August 2022. […]

Chinese Hackers Implant PlugX Variant on Compromised MS Exchange Servers

A Chinese cyberespionage group known for targeting Southeast Asia leveraged flaws in the Microsoft Exchange Server that came to light earlier this March to deploy a previously undocumented variant of a remote access trojan (RAT) on compromised systems. Attributing the intrusions to a threat actor named PKPLUG (aka Mustang Panda and HoneyMyte), Palo Alto Networks’ […]

LightNeuron, the backdoor designed especially for Microsoft Exchange

Reports of IICS web application penetration testing experts mentioned that a group of Russian cyber spies created one of the most advanced backdoors that have been thought to attack by an email server. The LightNeuron backdoor was specially developed to attack Microsoft Exchange email servers and, according to web application penetration testing experts, it works […]

Microsoft Exchange Server Fixed Against Information Disclosure Bug

Vulnerability allowed hackers to hijack active user sessions.Microsoft Exchange Server has been recently patched to fix an important security vulnerability which would have allowed attackers to gain access to active Webmail sessions via an easy to exploit flaw. The vulnerability was found in Outlook Web Access (OWA) in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, and allows any […]