Estonia: Foreign hackers breached local email provider for targeted attacks

guest · Apr 29, 2020

Estonia: Foreign hackers breached local email provider for targeted attacks
Hackers hijacked a small number of Mail.ee accounts
April 29, 2020
https://www.zdnet.com/article/eston...ed-local-email-provider-for-targeted-attacks/

State-sponsored hackers have used a zero-day vulnerability to hijack a small number of high-profile email accounts at Estonian email provider Mail.ee.

The attacks took place last year and the vulnerability in Mail.ee's service has been fixed, the Estonian Internal Security Service (KaPo) said in an end-of-year report published this month.

"This vulnerability was only exploited [against] a small number of email accounts belonging to persons of interest to a foreign country," KaPo said, without naming the victims.
The agency said the attacks took place with the help of malicious code hidden in emails sent to Mail.ee recipients.
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"The general public and users of mail.ee need not worry," KaPo said.
"We know from experience that businesses and research institutions are often unaware that their data could be of interest to foreign intelligence services working in the economic interests of their country," it added.

In the cases of companies that might be the target of foreign hackers, KaPo is recommending a series of steps for choosing an adequate email provider that includes a series of basic security features and privacy protections.
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