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Needle in the Haystack: The Inside Story of the Microsoft Exchange Hack

Needle in the Haystack: The Inside Story of the Microsoft Exchange Hack

Needle in the Haystack: The Inside Story of the Microsoft Exchange Hack

In early March, Microsoft shocked businesses around the world when it issued a warning that Chinese cyber-espionage operators were chaining multiple zero-day exploits to siphon e-mail data from Microsoft Exchange servers around the world.

In this exclusive session at SecurityWeek’s Threat Intelligence Summit, Josh Grunzweig, Threat Intelligence Analyst at Volexity, the firm credited with discovering the original attack, will detail the original discovery of the Microsoft Exchange zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited by targeted attackers in early 2021. 

Don’t miss this keynote to get an inside blow-by-blow of how the attacks were originally discovered, how attackers leveraged the vulnerabilities to accomplish their goals, as well as what happened in the preceding and subsequent days after Microsoft released patches for these vulnerabilities.
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For more than 15 years, Mike Lennon has been closely monitoring the threat landscape and analyzing trends in the National Security and enterprise cybersecurity space. In his role at SecurityWeek, he oversees the editorial direction of the publication and is the Director of several leading security industry conferences around the world.

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