The Australian government’s top cyber security agency says local businesses are facing extensive attacks and have been compromised by a Microsoft bug that allowed a suspected China-based state-sponsored hacking group to access tens of thousands of corporate emails from across the world. Australian Cyber Security Centre, which sits within the Australian Signals Directorate, has been working with local organisations in the fallout of the major security flaws being revealed last week by Microsoft.
“The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre [ACSC] has identified extensive targeting, and has confirmed compromises, of Australian organisations with vulnerable Microsoft Exchange deployments,” it said in a statement on Tuesday afternoon. “The ACSC is assisting affected organisations with their incident response and remediation....MORE
