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FBI deletes web shells from hundreds of compromised Microsoft Exchange servers before alerting admins

Michael Wojcik Silver badge

Re: Now you know you can blame the FBI if similar things go TITSUP in the future? *

Not "essentially a warrant" – it was a warrant. It's unsealed now and mostly redacted; the article contains a link to the FBI announcement, and the announcement has a link to download the unsealing order and the related documents. They're right there to be read.

The warrant is pretty specific. It was signed by Magistrate Judge Peter Bray of the US District Court, Southern Texas. FWIW, Bray has an engineering degree, and he was a Public Defender for 14 years.

The warrant says it was requested by telephone, and it was issued the day it was requested, so it's not like Bray spent a lot of time agonizing over it. But I don't see any grounds for claiming it was just rubber-stamped.

(I know. What kind of a nerd does actual research before commenting?)

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