Compromised Exchange Servers Were Used to Host Payloads to Hack Other Exchange Servers

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While many threat actors attempted to take advantage of the recent ProxyLogon Exchange vulnerabilities to deploy ransomware, some went in another direction. A Sophos report released Tuesday details an attack where the actors downloaded a cryptominer from other compromised Exchange servers. PowerShell was used to download files with a .zip extension from the “/owa/auth” directory. […]

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