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Sometimes a glaring new software vulnerability is all that scammers need to revive a trusty hacking scheme.  Just days after Microsoft announced that suspected Chinese spies were exploiting bugs in Microsoft Exchange Server software in March, Russian-speaking attackers controlling a botnet, or army of compromised computers, used those vulnerabilities to conduct a series of intrusions at companies in North America, according to incident responders at security firm Cybereason. The hacks, which are among several breaches involving the Exchange Server vulnerabilities, show how the same bugs in widely used software can be used for very different purposes. And the reemergence of the so-called Prometei botnet, named after the Russian word for Prometheus, the Greek god of fire, is a reminder of the many malicious purposes that the zombie computers serve. Cybereason said it was aware of more than a dozen recent hacking incidents involving the Prometei botnet, which the attackers typically use […]

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