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| Targeted European banking regulator in piracy Microsoft |
The European Banking Authority said the hacker was targeting European banking regulators, but it had not received any data.
The agency said it would redouble its efforts to protect itself from global cyber attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft's mail server program.
The European banking regulator, responsible for collecting and storing large amounts of sensitive data about banks and their loans, assumes that cyberattacks will only infect their mail servers.
And the European Banking Authority added: So far, the investigation has not revealed any data theft, the message infrastructure has been protected, and the analysis showed that no data extraction has been carried out and we have no evidence that the vulnerability has passed our investigation. Mail server.
The European Banking Authority is the latest known victim among thousands of organizations in Asia and Europe. Microsoft said the campaign used undeveloped vulnerabilities in various versions of its mail server software.
Although Microsoft has released emergency fixes, violations continue. Microsoft said: It is working with government agencies and security companies to help customers.
However, an examination of the connected equipment revealed that by Friday, only 10% of the available equipment had been repaired, although the number was still increasing.
Microsoft attributed the attack to the first wave of attacks against the "HA" organization sponsored by the Chinese government. A Chinese government spokesman said: This country is not behind the invasion.
Late last year, the controlled attack on some classic espionage targets, which began last month, turned into a full-scale campaign.
Given the prevalence of the code used to control the mail server, other hackers can be expected to launch more attacks.
Obviously, everyone involved is running the web version of the Outlook email client and hosting it on their own devices rather than relying on cloud service providers.
Microsoft has stated that Ha is extremely complex and has previously targeted US companies such as infection seekers, law firms, universities, defense companies, think tanks, and NGOs.