The U.S. and its strongest allies, such as the military alliance NATO, United Kingdom, and the European Union, explicitly ascribed the large-scale cyberattack on Microsoft Exchange servers to state-funded cybercriminal gangs working with the Ministry of State Security of China (MSS), according to The Hacker News. Four previously unidentified vulnerabilities in Exchange software have been exploited and the comprehensive cyber espionage effort is estimated to have affected a minimum of 30 000 US businesses and even more around the world. Microsoft classified the organization behind the breach, Hafnium, as an expert government-supported threat actor. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
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