Many Washington Post journalists’ email accounts were done by a foreign government in a cyber attack.
The incident was discovered on Thursday evening and the publication started an investigation. On Sunday, June 15, an internal memorandum was sent to the employees, in which he was informed of “unauthorized unauthorized infiltration in their email system”.
As The Wall Street JournalMemo was signed by executive editor Matt Murray and stated that a limited number of Microsoft accounts of journalists were affected.
Ownership of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Washington Post is one of the most influential newspapers in the United States.
Internal sources told The Wall Street Journal that the attack targeted journalists writing on national security and economic policy subjects, as well as some who write about China.
Advanced persistent threats (APTs), or state-proposed actors, often target email systems such as Microsoft Exchange. Two years ago, Chinese hackers took advantage of the unsafe exchange andpoints globally to dissolve email accounts of two dozen government agencies, which reached highly sensitive and confidential data.
But Chinese danger groups have a long history of exploiting exchange weaknesses in highly organized campaigns. He targeted US government agencies in 2020 and several NATO members in 2021.
Last year, Microsoft warned that hackers were exploiting a significant privilege height bug in turn as a zero-day to carry out NTLM relay attacks.
ESET Cyber Security Company discovered several Chinese danger groups in 2021 including APT27, Bronze Butler and Calipso, exploiting zero-day weaknesses in Microsoft Exchange.
Washington Post has not publicly shared any details about the attack.
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