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This week the NSA warned the public that Russian military cyber actors have been exploiting a version of email software for several months at least. The exploited system is MTA software for Unix-based systems, Exim mail – software that’s installed with a number of Linux distributions by default. While the…

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) on Thursday published information on the targeting of Exim mail servers by the Russia-linked threat actor known as Sandworm Team. The open-source Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) is used broadly worldwide, powering more than half of the Internet’s email servers and also being pre-installed…

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has released a new alert warning that Russian state hackers have been exploiting a vulnerability in Exim email servers for over nine months. Exim is mail transfer agent (MTA) software developed by the University of Cambridge which is used on Unix-based operating systems. Bundled…

The Russian APT group Sandworm has been exploiting a critical Exim flaw (CVE-2019-10149) to compromise mail servers since August 2019, the NSA has warned in a security advisory published on Thursday. “When CVE-2019-10149 is successfully exploited, an actor is able to execute code of their choosing. When Sandworm exploited CVE-2019-10149,…

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The U.S. National Security Agency says the same Russian military hacking group that interfered in the 2016 presidential election and unleashed a devastating malware attack the following year has been exploiting a major email server program since last August or earlier. The timing of the agency’s advisory Thursday was unusual…

BOSTON: The U.S. National Security Agency says the same Russian military hacking group that interfered in the 2016 presidential election and unleashed a devastating malware attack the following year has been exploiting a major email server program since last August or earlier. The timing of the agency's advisory Thursday was…

The National Security Agency (NSA) has released a cybersecurity advisory on Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) group Sandworm exploiting a vulnerability—CVE-2019-10149—in Exim Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) software. An unauthenticated remote attacker can use this vulnerability to send a specially crafted email to execute commands with root privileges, allowing the attacker…

The NSA has today issued an advisory warning concerning an ongoing Russian military hacking ... campaign. LightRocket via Getty Images The NSA has today issued a cybersecurity advisory warning organizations of a malicious cyber attack program that is being exploited by Sandworm Team, merely by sending a specially crafted email…