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

Posted on June 18, 2023August 27, 2023 By bot

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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