A little more than a month after Microsoft disclosed a bombshell piece of cybersecurity industry news -- an attack on Microsoft Exchange servers, whereby state-sponsored hackers from China were chaining together attacks on four vulnerabilities in Microsoft's email cloud service in order to steal data -- the US government just shared a pretty incredible piece of related news.
Court documents were unsealed, enabling a US Justice Department announcement that the FBI had undertaken what the department calls a successful operation to "copy and remove" backdoors remaining in hundreds of vulnerable computers around the US. The operation to remove these remaining malicious web shells was necessary, the Justice Department's announcement says, because they could have been used "to maintain and escalate persistent, unauthorized access to US networks." The FBI removed all of these backdoors by sending a command to the server through the web shell, which was meant to prod the server to delete only the web shell.
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The FBI is hacking hundreds of computers in the US, but for a good reason originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 09:00:07 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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