Russian State-Sponsored Hackers Exploited Microsoft Server App, Officials Say

Russian state-sponsored hackers were among those to exploit recently uncovered vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Exchange Server email application, which potentially compromised thousands of organizations, a coalition of American and British federal agencies warned. The finding was part of a joint advisory released by the FBI, the National Security Agency (NSA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre that detailed cybersecurity tactics and techniques Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR, uses to hack global organizations.