LA County Organizations Warned About Cyber Security Threats

Los Angeles CA

26 March, 2021

6:54 PM

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By CBSLA Staff, CBS Los Angeles: LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – Companies and organizations in Los Angeles County are being warned about a recent slew of cybersecurity threats from hackers. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department Fraud & Cyber Crimes Bureau (FCCB) Thursday announced that it had received reports that the servers of several organizations had been compromised, including those of law enforcement agencies. A recent "server vulnerability" allows "attackers to gain persistent system access, compromise authentication methods, and exfiltrate data and email files by executing code on vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers," the FCCB wrote. Read more at CBS Los Angeles