European Banking Regulator EBA Targeted In Microsoft Hacking

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The European Banking Authority on Monday said it had been targeted by hackers, although no data had been obtained and it was redoubling efforts to shield itself amid a global cyber attack exploiting flaws in Microsoft's mail server software. The European Union's banking regulator, which gathers and stores swathes of sensitive data about banks and their lending, said it believed the cyber attack had struck only its email servers. It is the latest prominent victim among tens of thousands of organizations in Asia and Europe targeted in a campaign which Microsoft Corp says makes use of previously undetected vulnerabilities in different versions of its mail server software. The hacks are continuing despite emergency patches issued by Microsoft, which has said it is working with government agencies and security companies to help customers. However, one scan of connected devices showed only 10% of those vulnerable had installed the patches by Friday, though the number was rising.

We all are

[drinkypoo]

We are all targeted by Microsoft Hacking. They socially engineered most of the world into accepting the worst spyware ever created... as an operating system.

Keep the lock on the door

[dowhileor]

I'd like to point out the push by China and a couple of nations that will remain unnamed here, at the UN no less, to be allowed to contribute to commercial software projects. Microsoft's Exchange and Active Directory were specifically named in this effort. This was about 15 to 20 years ago. If we are throwing blame, lets be fair.

Waste of time

[nagora]

The EBA is a worthless toothless rubber-stamp for approving anything Frankfurt asks for. The only sensitive data it stores is a list of which Italian banks are actually still solvent - that being an empty file with a last-updated timestamp from 1994.

This is news

[Errol backfiring]

What? The European Union has a banking regulator? This certainly is news.