At least 30,000 U.S. organizations have recently been hacked by an “unusually aggressive” Chinese cyber espionage unit, according to computer security experts. The White House has expressed concern that there will be “a large number of victims.
According to a March 6 report by Deutsche Welle, well-known computer security blogger Brian Krebs posted on his cybersecurity news site that Chinese Communist Hackers exploited a recently discovered flaw in Microsoft’s Exchange software to steal emails and poison computer servers with tools that allow attackers to control them remotely.
Asked about the situation at a news conference, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki described it as “an active threat,” stressing, “Everyone who uses these servers needs to take remedial action now. We’re concerned about the large number of victims.”
Krebs cited anonymous sources with knowledge of the situation as noting that the attacks on servers that have not yet been updated with security fixes “intensified significantly” after Microsoft released a patch for the vulnerability on March 2. In his blog post, he described how “over the past few days, at least 30,000 organizations across the United States – including a large number of small businesses, towns, cities and local governments – have been hacked by an unusually aggressive Chinese Communist Party cyber espionage unit, which focuses on the security of the Internet. hack that focuses on stealing emails from victim organizations.”
Krebs also said people familiar with the matter said hackers used password-protected software tools to break into computer systems and “seize control” of thousands of computer systems around the world.
Microsoft said the hackers were supported by the Chinese government.
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