Federal Agencies Release Advisory to Microsoft Exchange Server Hack

Federal Agencies Release Advisory to Microsoft Exchange Server Hack
People walk past a Microsoft office in New York on Nov. 10, 2016. China-based government hackers have exploited a bug in Microsoft's email server software to target U.S. organizations, the company said Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Swayne B. Hall/AP Photo File
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The nation’s top cybersecurity agencies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Wednesday regarding the hack of the Microsoft Exchange Server, calling on potential victims and users to install patches and verify any unauthorized executions of some functions.

“Continual use of unpatched exchange servers or delayed implementation of Microsoft-released updates poses a serious risk to affected systems,” the advisory warned. It recommended installing all the security patches that Microsoft released on March 2.