{"id":107789,"date":"2020-05-28T20:44:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T03:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/nsa-warns-of-new-sandworm-attacks-on-email-servers"},"modified":"2020-05-28T20:44:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T03:44:46","slug":"nsa-warns-of-new-sandworm-attacks-on-email-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/nsa-warns-of-new-sandworm-attacks-on-email-servers","title":{"rendered":"NSA warns of new Sandworm attacks on email servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.nsa-warns-of-new-sandworm-attacks-on-email-servers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US National Security Agency (NSA) has published today a security alert warning of a new wave of cyberattacks against email servers, attacks conducted by one of Russia\u2019s most advanced cyber-espionage units.<\/p>\n<p>The NSA says that members of Unit 74455 of the GRU Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST), a division of the Russian military intelligence service, have been attacking email servers running the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA).<\/p>\n<p>Also known as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de\/actor\/sandworm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sandworm<\/a>,\u201d this group has been hacking Exim servers since August 2019 by exploiting a critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019\u201310149, the NSA said in a security alert [<a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2020\/May\/28\/2002306626\/-1\/-1\/0\/CSA%20Sandworm%20Actors%20Exploiting%20Vulnerability%20in%20Exim%20Transfer%20Agent%2020200528.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">PDF<\/a>] shared today with <em>ZDNet<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US National Security Agency (NSA) has published today a security alert warning of a new wave of cyberattacks against email servers, attacks conducted by one of Russia\u2019s most advanced cyber-espionage units. The NSA says that members of Unit 74455 of the GRU Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST), a division of the Russian military [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}