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General Knowledge u/monkeyguy999 2021-03-26 21:30 UTC 20 points

Just a friendly quick reminder if you dont know.

Almost all exchange servers and many f5 load balances have been hacked in the last week, world wide. This is a perfect storm type of thing.

I'm talking 9 out of 10 hacked. Thus if you use outlook or another client via Exchange. Please make sure your admin has patched up the servers. If not.....your information and that of everyone on the server is at great risk. There are many many internet wide scans going on currently to find and exploit them. Ransom ware has started to be installed as well.

Who wants to pay 10k for their information decrypted?

Additionally backup offline immediately, can save you money and headaches.

Just a warning from your neighborly IT Castaneda geek.

12 Comments

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u/ANewMythos 1 points 2021-03-26 21:53

Whoah. Thanks friend. Blessings.

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u/monkeyguy999 1 points 2021-03-27 00:36

No worries.

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u/Tannereast 1 points 2021-03-26 22:48

I sent my gf an e etransfer last week and it got intercepted for 4k. I had a hotmail account could this be related? also I have since deleted that email account and have an open investigation

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u/monkeyguy999 1 points 2021-03-27 00:14

Hotmail is owned and operated by Microsoft so yes there is that possibility.
What do you mean intercepted for 4k? Ransome ware?

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u/Tannereast 1 points 2021-03-27 01:16

not sure my e transfer to my gf was accepted by someone else

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u/monkeyguy999 1 points 2021-03-27 05:45

That sucks man. One of the reasons I gave up on MS a decade or more ago.

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u/SilenceisGolden29 1 points 2021-03-27 04:07

I have outlook for my email client? What should I do

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u/monkeyguy999 1 points 2021-03-27 05:45

Assuming the back end is exchange. Make sure it is patched. You would have to contact IT.

What you can do now is make an offline folder within outlook and copy everything to the offline copy. Can also do it via pop mail or imap and pulling them down that way.
Let me know if you have any questions.
You should really do this anyway, can save you in the long run. Has me multiple times.

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u/1bpjc 1 points 2021-03-29 09:58

What do you mean by f5 load balances ? Can you translate your posts so that it is comprehensible for someone less IT advanced than you ?

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u/monkeyguy999 1 points 2021-03-29 22:33

Load balancers are between the internet and a particular company. They decide which server traffic goes to. And then the mail servers are behind the load balancers. So servers - load balancers - internet.
If the f5s are hacked and the servers are hacked. There is nothing stopping people getting directly to the servers and all email on the server.

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u/1bpjc 1 points 2021-03-30 11:00

How does it impact private user ? Does it impact only private company ?

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u/monkeyguy999 1 points 2021-04-01 04:54

It impacts any person or company using exchange as a mail server.

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