{"id":32703,"date":"2021-03-10T16:31:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T00:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32703"},"modified":"2021-03-10T16:31:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T00:31:19","slug":"officials-warn-of-widespread-exploit-of-microsoft-vulnerabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32703","title":{"rendered":"Officials warn of &#8216;widespread&#8217; exploit of Microsoft vulnerabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nation\u2019s top cybersecurity official told lawmakers Wednesday that the federal government is seeing \u201cwidespread\u201d hacking using recently uncovered vulnerabilities in a Microsoft email application, with researchers saying almost a dozen hacking groups have used the flaw to target a variety of organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Wales, the acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), testified to a House committee that the previously unknown vulnerabilities on Microsoft Exchange Server have been exploited globally and could have long-lasting consequences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCISA is already aware of widespread exploitation of the vulnerabilities, and trusted partners have observed malicious actors using these vulnerabilities to gain access to targeted organizations in the United States and globally,\u201d Wales testified to the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee.<\/p>\n<p>Wales\u2019s comments came the same day cybersecurity group ESET released new research finding that at least 10 hacking groups had been exploiting the Microsoft vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Wales\u2019s warnings, the FBI and CISA put out a joint alert on Wednesday outlining the sectors targeted by the hackers, and warning that both federal agencies and private sector groups were at \u201cserious risk\u201d from the Microsoft vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation\u2019s top cybersecurity official told&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32704,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32703\/revisions\/32704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}