Barracuda email cyberattack may have been used by hackers to spy on US government

Cybersecurity firm and Google Cloud subsidiary, Mandiant, has announced suspicions that Chinese-backed spies could have been behind the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in the Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG).Researchers have tracked attacks to a China-nexus actor who appears to have been conducting espionage “spanning a multitude of regions and sectors,” including the US government.The announcement details how the attacker, codenamed UNC4841, sent emails containing malicious files to target organizations that would exploit CVE-2023-2868 in order to gain initial



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