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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.
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From Thursday through Monday, Check Point Research tracked a tenfold increase in the number of attempts to exploit vulnerable on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers as many organizations are still racing to install patches.
Global exploits of four vulnerabilities in Exchange servers grew from an estimated 700 on Thursday to about 7,200 on Monday as hackers continued to scramble to take advantage of the flaws before companies patched their systems, Check Point reports, citing results of its telemetry efforts. Cybercriminals and other malicious actors know there is a finite time to act between the announcement of a vulnerability and the point where patches are released and in place, says Saryu Nayyar, CEO of the security firm Gurucul. That time is rapidly closing for the Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities.