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Most of the impacted services have since been restored but additional details regarding the identity of the intrusion's perpetrators have not been provided by the firm.

"This means that passwords used for mail access may be intercepted by a network sniffer. Additionally, service exposure may enable password guessing attacks against the server," said Shadowserver.

Officials revealed that the department's Office of Financial Research had also been infiltrated as part of the incident, which was noted to have stemmed from an attack against the agency's implementation of the BeyondTrust remote support software-as-a-service platform in a disclosure to Congress earlier this week.

A proactive approach by business that looks to align with government can make cybersecurity more of a priority in Washington.

We entered a new year, but attack scenarios have not changed (yet). I found a Python script with an interesting behavior[ 1] and a low Virustotal score (7/61). It targets Microsoft Windows hosts because it starts by loading all libraries required to call Microsoft API Calls and manipulate payloads:

Tech giant will be paying out a $95 million settlement over claims it exposed user data.

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