White House warns of ‘active threat’ from Microsoft email hackers
CNNWashington CNN — The Biden administration is increasingly sounding the alarm over a series of newly discovered cyber intrusions that Microsoft said this week were linked to China. “Everyone running these servers – government, private sector, academia – needs to act now to patch them.” Psaki’s warnings followed a tweet by national security adviser Jake Sullivan Thursday evening that underscored how concerned the Biden administration is. Sullivan said the US government is monitoring reports that US think tanks may have been compromised by the attack, as well as “defense industrial base entities.” Later on Friday, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency underscored the risk in unusually plain language, stating in a tweet that the malicious activity, if left unchecked, could “enable an attacker to gain control of an entire enterprise network.” In a rare step, White House officials have urged private sector organizations running localized installations of Microsoft Exchange server software to install several critical updates that were released in what information security experts described as an emergency patch release. “And that’s really as far as I’m able to go right now.” Microsoft disclosed this week that it had become aware of several vulnerabilities in its server software being exploited by suspected Chinese hackers. “When you wake up to the and tweeting about cyber,” National Security Agency communications official Bailey Bickley tweeted from her personal account, appending a “starstruck” emoji and quoting Sullivan’s tweet from the night before.
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