Attacks predicted for a freshly reported email server vulnerability have come true in less than a week. If you’re an email administrator, you should be aware of the attacks this week targeting a vulnerability in the Exim MTA server code (versions 4.87 to 4.91), the objective of which is to create a backdoor that could then be exploited for almost anything, since with the backdoor in place, the attackers would then have full root access on the server.
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