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Researchers warn of a surge in cyber attacks against Microsoft Exchange

Security Affairs

On March 2nd, Microsoft released emergency out-of-band security updates that address four zero-day issues (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065) in all supported MS Exchange versions that are actively exploited in the wild. 2/5 — ESET research (@ESETresearch) March 2, 2021.

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Iran-linked APT groups continue to evolve

Security Affairs

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) shared the results of their analysis on the evolution of Iran-linked threat actors at the CyberWarCon 2021. Over the past 12 months, MSTIC experts observed increasingly sophisticated attacks orchestrated by Iranian APT groups. ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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The Microsoft Exchange Attack Saga Continues

eSecurity Planet

Specifically, the tool targets the CVE-2021-26855 vulnerability. This vulnerability allows an attacker to make an untrusted connection to Exchange server port 443, allowing them to send arbitrary HTTP requests and authenticate as the Exchange server. Even after running the tool, existing and future updates should still be applied.