{"id":219390,"date":"2021-03-13T17:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=219390"},"modified":"2021-03-13T17:00:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T22:00:21","slug":"white-house-refuses-to-confirm-china-behind-microsoft-exchange-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-refuses-to-confirm-china-behind-microsoft-exchange-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"White House refuses to confirm China behind Microsoft Exchange hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-refuses-to-confirm-china-behind-microsoft-exchange-hack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=219390&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2386469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2386469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White House Press National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan talks to reporters. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 1:20 PM PT \u2013 Saturday, March 13, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>White House officials dodged questions from the press corps about the recent Microsoft Exchange hack. Before his face-to-face upcoming meeting with Chinese officials, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan faced off with the press corps.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters wasted no time Thursday trying to pin down the administration\u2019s position on the latest China-linked scandal.<\/p>\n<p>In early March, Microsoft alerted users that their email server, Exchange, had been compromised, which allowed the hackers to install malware to \u201cfacilitate long-term access\u201d to a number of systems. In an effort to stop the attacks, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center analyzed the group\u2019s victimology, tactics and procedures.<\/p>\n<p>With a high degree of confidence, Microsoft attributed the attacks to a group they\u2019ve named Hafnium, a so-called \u201cstate-sponsored threat actor\u201d operating out of China. However, despite the manufacturer of the very system that was targeted confirming they knew who their attacker was, Sullivan claimed the White House wasn\u2019t so sure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not in a position standing here today to provide attribution, but I do pledge to you that we will be in a position to attribute that attack at some point in the near future,\u201d Sullivan noted. \u201cAnd we won\u2019t hide the ball on that. We will come forward and say who we believe perpetrated the attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just days after the initial announcement, Microsoft even reported the attacks were ongoing. Sullivan misunderstood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is still ongoing in the sense that we are still gathering information,\u201d he claimed. We are still trying to determine the scope and scale. It is significant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, current estimates show that more than 60,000 organizations were compromised. Additionally, security teams worked in conjunction with Microsoft to reveal that the number of hacking attempts tripled every two to three hours.<\/p>\n<p>A senior administration official told CNN that the \u201cwindow for updating exposed servers\u201d was \u201cmeasured in hours, not days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the urgency, Sullivan claimed at the end of the day, it\u2019s every server for itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, a lot of this comes down to the private sector taking the steps that they need to take to remediate,\u201d Sullivan said.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/house-minority-leader-mccarthy-slams-irresponsible-spending-by-dems-in-covid-relief-bill-says-u-s-has-allocated-more-money-to-be-spent-in-last-year-than-all-of-ww2\/\">House Minority Leader McCarthy Slams Irresponsible Spending By Dems In COVID Relief Bill, Says U.S. Has Allocated More Money To Be Spent In Last Year Than In WWII<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan talks to reporters. 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