White House Stands Down SolarWinds, Exchange Response Groups Twitter
Deputy National Security Adviser Anne Neuberger (Source: C-SPAN)
The White House announced Monday that it is standing down two Unified Coordination Groups that were created to coordinate the federal response to the SolarWinds supply chain attack and attacks on vulnerable on-premises Microsoft Exchange email servers.
Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology who s overseeing the Biden administration s response to the attacks, says the two groups work can be scaled back because of increases in patching and other mitigation by federal agencies and companies. Due to the vastly increased patching and reduction in victims, we are standing down the current [Unified Coordination Group] surge efforts and will be handling further responses through standard incident management procedures, Neuberger says.
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FBI Removing Web Shells From Infected Exchange Servers Twitter
FBI headquarters in Washington (Photo: Tim Evanson via Flickr/CC)
A federal court in Texas gave the FBI the go-ahead to remove malware from on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers at organizations infected in a wave of voluminous zero-day attacks earlier this year, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday.
Since Friday, the FBI has been removing web shells, or scripts that allow remote access, from Exchange servers belonging to organizations in at least eight states, according to an unsealed application for a search warrant released by the DOJ. The operation is authorized to run through April 23.