A little more than a month after Microsoft disclosed a bombshell piece of cybersecurity industry news — an attack on Microsoft Exchange servers, whereby state-sponsored hackers from China were chaining together attacks on four vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s email cloud service in order to steal data — the US government just shared a pretty incredible piece of related news.
Court documents were unsealed, enabling a US Justice Department announcement that the FBI had undertaken what the department calls a successful operation to “copy and remove” backdoors remaining in hundreds of vulnerable computers around the US.
