Hackers are mass-scanning the internet to discover Microsoft Exchange servers vulnerable to RCE bug

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A patch to fix this bug has already been released by Microsoft

Threat actors are currently performing mass-scans of the internet in search of Microsoft Exchange servers vulnerable to the CVE-2020-0688 security bug, the security researchers at Bad Packets have ...

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