No sign of Exchange-related ransomware hitting UK orgs, claims NCSC as it urges admins to scan for compromises

No sign of Exchange-related ransomware hitting UK orgs, claims NCSC as it urges admins to scan for compromises

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre has reminded Brits to patch their Microsoft Exchange Server deployments against Hafnium attacks, 10 days after the US and wider infosec industry shouted the house down saying the same thing.


The agency told press on Friday afternoon that it had proactively helped UK organisations fix around 2,100 affected mailservers following last week's out-of-band patches to resolve four zero-day vulnerabilities in Exchange Server. Those flaws were being exploited by China-based malefactors to steal data from vulnerable deployments.

"The NCSC strongly advises all organisations using affected versions of Microsoft Exchange Servers to proactively search systems for evidence of compromise," said the GCHQ offshoot in a statement published this afternoon, expanding on brief public advice from 3 March.
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