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The White House on Wednesday unveiled the formation of a Unified Coordination Group to lead the government's response to attacks exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in on-premises Microsoft Exchange email servers.
Representatives of the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are participating in the new group. The National Security Agency is providing support.
The group, which was established last week, held its first meeting Monday, with representatives of Microsoft and other firms attending, White House press secretary Jen Psaki says.
"We invited the private sector partners based on their specific insights to this incident," Psaki said Wednesday. At its first meeting, the group "discussed the remaining number of unpatched systems, malicious exploitation and ways to partner together on incident response."