{"id":29376,"date":"2021-03-08T11:27:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T17:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=29376"},"modified":"2021-03-08T14:23:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T20:23:54","slug":"u-s-warns-of-active-threat-after-microsoft-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/u-s-warns-of-active-threat-after-microsoft-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. warns of \u2018active threat\u2019 after Microsoft hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The<\/strong><strong> White House is <\/strong><strong>concern<\/strong><strong>ed<\/strong><strong> over a hack <\/strong><strong>of<\/strong><strong> Microsoft<\/strong><strong>\u2019<\/strong><strong>s Exchange email software that the tech company <\/strong><strong>believes originated in<\/strong><strong> China.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government has expressed deep concern over an attack on Microsoft\u2019s Exchange email software that the tech giant believes came from China.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/on-the-issues\/2021\/03\/02\/new-nation-state-cyberattacks\/\">Microsoft executive Tom Burt revealed the breach in a blog post on Tuesday<\/a>&nbsp;and announced the company would address security flaws he said had allowed hackers to gain access to Microsoft Exchange servers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) is highly confident that the attacks were carried out by a \u201cstate-sponsored threat actor\u201d based in China which they named Hafnium.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The tech company said Hafnium had tried to steal information from groups such as infectious disease researchers, law firms, higher education institutions, and defense contractors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an active threat,\u201d White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Friday. \u201cEveryone running these servers\u2014government, private sector, academia\u2014needs to act now to patch them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the US National Security Council said it was \u201cessential that any organization with a vulnerable server take immediate measures\u201d to determine if they had been targeted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Chinese government told Reuters news agency that the country was not behind the hack. Beijing has repeatedly rejected U.S. accusations of cyber-crime.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More than 20,000 organizations have been compromised in the U.S. with many more affected worldwide as a result of cyberattacks, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is concerned over a hack of Microsoft\u2019s  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":29385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[4505,62],"class_list":["post-29376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hack","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29396,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29376\/revisions\/29396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}