Hi and welcome to Sabare's malicious life B-sides.

As you're probably well aware, most episodes of malicious life are narrative and story-driven.

It's a great format which I think is the best way to communicate complicated technical topics,

but on the downside it makes it hard for us to respond to current and ongoing events because it takes time to research and write a good story.

This downside became much more apparent in the

last few months due to the Solar Wins attack which made waves all over the information security world

and now the MS Exchange Hack,

both of which affected tens of thousands of organizations all over the world.

To tackle this challenge, we're bringing back a secondary format we used to have on malicious life called B-Sights.

These are short interview-based episodes in between the longer story-driven episodes of the show,

which will revolve around topics and ideas we find hard to

incorporate into our regular episodes. So for our first B side we're happy to have

with us a regular contributor to the show Israel Barak,

Cyber reasons C-Sisso and a cyber defense and warfare expert to talk about the hottest topic in

cyber security right now.

The MS Exchange Hack by Hafnum,

a Chinese state-sponsored APT.

Nate Nelson, our senior producer, talked with Israel about the attack itself, the zero-day vulnerabilities

that allowed the hackers to infiltrate the networks of so many organizations and the probable fallout from this event.

Nate, take it from here and I'll see you on the other side of the interview.

Enjoy. Israel, what is the story that we're going to be talking about today.

So we're going to be talking about the half-nium attack where at least 30,000 organizations

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