Chinese Hacking Spree Hit an ‘Astronomical’ Number of Victims
By Andy Greenberg
Published: 2021-03-05 · Archived: 2026-04-05 14:01:06 UTC
A single group appears to have infiltrated tens of thousands of Microsoft Exchange servers in an ongoing
onslaught.
Photograph: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images
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When news hit earlier this week that Chinese hackers were actively targeting Microsoft Exchange servers, the
cybersecurity community warned that the zero-day vulnerabilities they were exploiting might have allowed them
to hit countless organizations around the world. Now it's becoming clear just many email servers they hacked. By
all appearances, the group known as Hafnium breached as many victims they could find across the global internet,
leaving behind backdoors to return to later.
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Andy Greenberg is a senior writer for WIRED covering hacking, cybersecurity, and surveillance. He’s the author
of the books Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency and Sandworm: A New
Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers. His books ... Read More
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