Chinese hackers spook the White House
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A Chinese hacking group called Hafnium has exploited a security flaw in Microsoft's popular Exchange Server email software to infect hundreds of thousands of entities across the globe. The cyber-attack has installed sophisticated backdoors and siphoned off emails from critical government agencies and scientific as well as business enterprises. Not surprisingly, the Chinese capability to strike this decisively has even the White House spooked.