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Brit authorities could legally do an FBI and scrub malware from compromised boxen without your knowledge

Posted on April 20, 2021 by Dissent

Gareth Corfield comments:

UK authorities could lawfully copy the FBI and forcibly remove web shells from compromised Microsoft Exchange server deployments – but some members of the British infosec industry are remarkably quiet about whether this would be a good thing.

In the middle of last week the American authorities made waves after deleting web shells from Exchange Server deployments compromised in the Hafnium attacks. The agency had gone to the US federal courts for permission, which it received.

Read more on The Register.

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