Russian Agents Have Been Hacking Major Email Programs 

    

    The US National Security Agency says the same Russian military hacking group that interfered in the 2016 president election and unleaded a devastating malware attack the following years has been exploiting a major email server program since last August or earlier. The timing of the agency's advisory Thursday was usual considering that the critical vulnerability in the Exim mall Transfer Agent which mostly runs on Unix- type operating systems was identified 11 months ago, when a patch was issued.

Exim is so widely used though for less know that such commercial alternatives as Microsoft's proprietary Exchange that some companies and government agencies that run in may still not have patched the vulnerability said Jake Williams, president of Rendition info-sec and a former US government server in the UK.