White House says it is closely monitoring Microsoft’s emergency fix
The White House is closely following an emergency fix that Microsoft Corp released, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Thursday after an unknown hacking group recently broke into organizations using a loophole. in the company’s mail server software.
“We are closely monitoring Microsoft’s emergency patch for previously unknown vulnerabilities in Exchange Server software and reports of potential compromise from US think tanks and industry base defense entities,” Jake said. Sullivan, National Security Advisor to President Joe Biden, on Twitter.
We encourage network owners to apply fixes as soon as possible, he said. His tweet included a link to a notice from Microsoft regarding the security update.
Microsoft’s near-ubiquitous suite of products have come under intense scrutiny since the hack of SolarWinds, a Texas-based software company that has served as a springboard for several intrusions into government and the private sector.
In other cases, hackers took advantage of the way customers had configured their Microsoft services to compromise their targets or dive deeper into affected networks.
Hackers who attacked SolarWinds also violated Microsoft itself, accessing and downloading source code – including items from Exchange, email, and the company’s calendar product.
