Cyberattacks on Microsoft Exchange server rises 10 times in 5 days: Report

Cyberattacks on organizations have increased ten times ever since Microsoft alerted its clients about multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in on-premise Exchange email servers. The numbers grew from 700 on March 11 to 7,200 on March 15. Around 32 organizations in India have been attacked so far, with finance and banking the most targeted sectors, followed by government, military, manufacturing and insurance, cybersecuirty firm Check Point Research said in its latest report.

US was the most targeted country accounting for 17% of all exploit attempts, followed by Germany (6%), UK (5%), Netherlands (5%) and Russia (4%).

Microsoft’s Exchange email server is an online collaboration platform for enterprises meant to send, receive and store emails and calendar invites. It is used by organisations in private as well as government sector across the world. Everything accessed within Outlook goes through the Exchange server.