Microsoft Gets Some Help
April 14, 2021
I want to keep this item brief. Here’s the headline which caught my attention:
The DoJ statement says:
Throughout March, Microsoft and other industry partners released detection tools, patches and other information to assist victim entities in identifying and mitigating this cyber incident. Additionally, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a Joint Advisory on Compromise of Microsoft Exchange Server on March 10. Despite these efforts, by the end of March, hundreds of web shells remained on certain United States-based computers running Microsoft Exchange Server software.
Here’s a partial fix as explained in the DoJ write up:
This court-authorized operation to copy and remove malicious web shells from hundreds of vulnerable computers shows our commitment to use any viable resource to fight cyber criminals. We will continue to do so in coordination with our partners and with the court to combat the threat until it is alleviated, and we can further protect our citizens from these malicious cyber
breaches.”
Interesting. To the reader of this blog who did not find my Microsoft Bob security T shirt amusing I would say, “What about a Microsoft Bob security baseball cap?” The Microsoft softball team appears to need some professional players to be competitive in this season’s games.
Stephen E Arnold, April 14, 2021
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