On the 2nd of March 2021, our security team got a notification from Microsoft that they will release out-of-band security updates for Microsoft Exchange Server. After getting more information it turns out that there are four disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities for Microsoft Exchange Server On-premises. Exchange Online users are not affected. These zero-day vulnerabilities are known as CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065). In this article, we (d0p4m1n3, T13nn3s and Erik) want to take you through a story in which our security team goes to work to prevent the exploitation of these vulnerabilities, and we want to tell you our story in how we found a post-exploitation backdoor installed on an Exchange server by a threat actor.
Continue readingHunting down Microsoft Exchange 0-day
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