Two interconnected ‘zero-day’ bugs leave Microsoft email users open to attack
1Two interconnected ‘zero-day’ bugs leave Microsoft email users open to attack.
Mumbai: Hundreds of organisations using Microsoft Exchange Server, a Microsoft product that provides email hosting service for companies around the world, are currently vulnerable to cyber-attack from two recently detected high severity vulnerabilities.
Both the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), India’s apex agency for cybersecurity, and Microsoft have stated that these vulnerabilities have already been exploited by hackers, and no patch has been released for them as yet.
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Exchange Server allows organisations to set up official email domains in the name of the organisation and assign individual official email accounts to the employees.
The biggest risk associated with such a service is that unauthorised entry into a single account could potentially compromise the entire company through further attacks.