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SECURITY ALERT – Mimecast

SECURITY ALERT – Mimecast
Written By   Eric Woodard, CISSP
January 12, 2021 Cyber Security

Attacks on the vendors of managed services providers like Protek Support continue to increase in both severity and frequency. This week’s target was unfortunately the spam filtering service Mimecast, which the majority of Protek Support clients utilize.

As always, Protek takes these notifications very seriously and immediately looked at our client’s Mimecast accounts to verify that none were vulnerable or had been attacked. We are happy to report that our clients accounts have not been compromised in any way due to this attack.

UPDATED Jan 26th – According to Mimecast “A Mimecast-issued certificate provided to certain customers to authenticate Mimecast Sync and Recover, Continuity Monitor, and IEP products to Microsoft 365 Exchange Web Services has been compromised by a sophisticated threat actor”

The company launched an internal investigation, supported by leading third-party forensics experts. The investigation has now confirmed that this incident is related to the SolarWinds Orion software compromise and was perpetrated by the same sophisticated threat actor.

This attack shows how important knowing your “supply chain” is. The tools that support the tools you use, are part of your supply chain and an attack on one can have far reaching affects down the line.

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Eric is the owner and CEO of Protek Support and is a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional). He graduated from Utah State University with a Bachelors of Science degree in Business with an emphasis in Information Technology (IT). He is an IT Services expert in a variety of technology related fields. Some of these fields include document management software/hardware, enterprise level networking and VoIP phone systems, as well as large scale software implementation projects and the setup of small business networks.

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