Stefan Mileschin

Email boxer rebellion

A China-linked cyber espionage group has been remotely plundering email inboxes using freshly discovered flaws in Microsoft mail server software.

Writing in its bog, Vole said the hacking campaign made use of four previously undetected vulnerabilities in different versions of the software and was the work of a group it dubs HAFNIUM, which it described as a state sponsored entity operating out of China.

In a separate blog post, cyber security firm Volexity said that in January it had seen the hackers use one of the vulnerabilities to remotely steal "the full contents of several user mailboxes". All they needed to know were the details of Exchange server and of the account, they wanted to pillage, Vole said.

China has denied it of course and says the concept of Chinese spies attacking western targets were groundless guesses and accusations.

However, the hackers' increasingly aggressive moves began to attract attention across the cybersecurity community.

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