FBI deletes web shells from hundreds of compromised Microsoft Exchange servers before alerting admins

FBI deletes web shells from hundreds of compromised Microsoft Exchange servers before alerting admins

The FBI deleted web shells installed by criminals on hundreds of Microsoft Exchange servers across the United States, it was revealed on Tuesday.


The Feds were given approval by the courts to carry out the deletions, which occurred without first warning the servers' owners, following the discovery and exploitation of critical vulnerabilities in the enterprise software.

Shortly after Microsoft raised the alarm early last month over the security holes in Exchange and provided fixes for the vulnerabilities, miscreants swarmed to exploit the programming blunders and hijack unpatched installations. (Certain groups were even breaking in Exchange servers via the holes before their existence was public knowledge.)


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