Security News > 2021 > March > Å nei! Norway's Stortinget struck by Microsoft Exchange malware
The exploit at a democratic institution such as Stortinget is certainly ominous, perhaps more so than the woes in recent days of organisations such as the European Banking Authority.
Stortinget president Tone Wilhelmsen Trøen said: "The attack we are facing shows that IT attacks can have serious consequences for democratic processes at worst."
Located in Oslo, Stortinget is the supreme legislature of Norway and consists of 169 seats.
The accusation was deemed "Groundless" by Konstantin Kosachev, head of the Russian Federation Council's Committee on Foreign Affairs, according to the Russian News Agency, TASS. Stortinget is not connecting that breach with the recent exploiting of vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Exchange Server, made public last week.
Security researcher Brian Krebs recently posted that "At least" 30,000 US organisations could have been hacked thanks to the flaws, which allowed hackers to leave backdoors in exposed Exchange Servers.
Stortinget is sadly unlikely to be the last organisation to go public on a compromise of Microsoft Exchange.
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