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Russian agents have been hacking major email program: US National Security Agency NSA

Russian agents have been hacking major email program: US National Security Agency

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…
bubmag
May 29, 2020
NSA Releases Advisory on Sandworm Actors Exploiting an Exim Vulnerability NSA

NSA Releases Advisory on Sandworm Actors Exploiting an Exim Vulnerability

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…
bubmag
May 28, 2020