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The first breach of a Microsoft Exchange Server instance was observed by cybersecurity company Volexity on 6 January 2021. [1] By the end of January, Volexity had observed a breach allowing attackers to spy on two of their customers, and alerted Microsoft to the vulnerability. After Microsoft was alerted of the breach, Volexity noted the ...
In 2020, a major cyberattack suspected to have been committed by a group backed by the Russian government penetrated thousands of organizations globally including multiple parts of the United States federal government, leading to a series of data breaches. [1] [28] [29] The cyberattack and data breach were reported to be among the worst cyber ...
Hafnium (group) (Redirected from HAFNIUM (group)) Hafnium (sometimes styled HAFNIUM; also called Silk Typhoon by Microsoft [1]) is a cyber espionage group, sometimes known as an advanced persistent threat, with alleged ties to the Chinese government. [2] [3] [4] Hafnium is closely connected to APT40. [5]
April 2, 2024 at 4:34 PM. (Reuters) -The U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board is expected to issue a report detailing lapses by Microsoft that led to a targeted Chinese hack of top U.S. government ...
Experts are still unsure of the hackers' motivations, and whether the incident may have been a "test run" for a larger attack.
2021 FBI email hack. On November 13, 2021, a hacker named Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, going by his alias "Pompompurin", compromised the FBI's external email system, sending thousands of messages warning of a cyberattack by cybersecurity CEO Vinny Troia who was falsely suggested to have been identified as part of The Dark Overlord hacking group by ...
September: Computer hacker Jonathan James became the first juvenile to serve jail time for hacking. 2001. Microsoft becomes the prominent victim of a new type of hack that attacks the domain name server. In these denial-of-service attacks, the DNS paths that take users to Microsoft's websites are corrupted.
EternalBlue [5] is computer exploit software developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). [6] It is based on a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows that, at the time, allowed users to gain access to any number of computers connected to a network. The NSA had known about this vulnerability for several years but had not disclosed it to ...