Kyle Alspach reports:
Mandiant ‘assesses with high confidence’ that state-backed Chinese hackers carried out attacks on customers of Barracuda’s Email Security Gateway
Hackers working for China’s government are the likely culprits behind the recent cyberattack campaign targeting customers who use Barracuda’s Email Security Gateway, according to prominent incident response firm Mandiant.
The attacks, which have leveraged a critical vulnerability in the on-premises appliances that has now been patched, last week prompted the unusual recommendation from Barracuda that affected customers should actually replace their Email Security Gateway devices.
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But according to the Associated Press, China calls Google’s hacking claims ‘far-fetched and unprofessional’