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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious campaign that attempts to exploit the already-fixed ProxyShell vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange email servers together with the Windows PetitPotam vulnerability, once again highlighting the importance of patching vulnerabilities in critical components.
The new campaign that hopes to find unpatched vulnerable hosts in order to deploy a variant of the Babuk ransomware was unearthed by researchers at the Cisco Talos threat intelligence group with the help of Cisco Secure product telemetry.