U.S. Takes Unprecedented Action to Disrupt State-Sponsored Exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
By EsqSocial Corporation 20/04/21
On April 13, 2021, a federal district court granted a motion to partially unseal an FBI application and search warrant following the successful conclusion of an FBI operation to eradicate malicious web shells placed on U.S.-based computers by Chinese state-sponsored actors. The FBI’s use of credentialed, remote access techniques to access, copy, and remove malware without the knowledge of the computer’s owner appears to be a novel approach by the FBI in counteracting state-sponsored...
By: Alston & Bird