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  FBI receives ‘search warrant’ to INFILTRATE & FIX hundreds of email systems

  Posted by Ami on 14 April 2021 at 12:03 pm

  The US Department of Justice has allowed the FBI to infiltrate hundreds of systems affected by an exploit of Microsoft Exchange email servers and “delete malicious software.” The people affected will be notified… by email.

  In what appears to be the first action of such kind ever, the FBI removed “web shells” belonging to “one early hacking group,” the DOJ said on Tuesday. Web shells are malware left on the servers by people who used the zero-day exploit on the popular email server software to gain access to corporate email servers earlier this year.

  While thousands of affected web servers have since been patched, hundreds of web shells “persisted unmitigated” because the system owners appeared unwilling or unable to remove them, the DOJ said.

  The FBI’s operation was intended to ‘help’ administrators secure their systems and successfully removed the malware from some of these computers. It was authorized as a “search” warrant by Judge Peter Bray, a federal magistrate in the Southern District of Texas. His court order was issued on April 9, but remained sealed until Tuesday.

  So now the FBI can take over your server, using a hidden search warrant, go through all your emails removing what they claim are web shell to “help” administrators, BS!

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