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Microsoft Exchange Servers Targeted by Hackers and Cryptocurrency miners

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Ridgewood NJ, hackers continue to target vulnerable Exchange servers, with a ten-fold increase in the number of attempted attacks from March 11 and March 15, 2021 alone. In addition to the nation-state hackers that first exploited several zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange, ransomware threat actors and cryptocurrency miners are also targeting vulnerable servers. According to Microsoft, a new ransomware family known as DearCry is infecting networks after initial Exchange server compromises.

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