By: The Hill
March 17, 2021
White House officials said Wednesday that the Biden administration has formally stood up a task force of government and private sector groups as it works to investigate and respond to the recently uncovered cyber espionage incident involving a Microsoft email application.
Press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed in a statement that the National Security Council (NSC) has established a “unified coordination group” (UCG) to respond to Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities, first announced by the company earlier this month, and which have potentially victimized thousands of organizations.
Psaki said the group includes the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and had met earlier this week with private sector companies to respond to the ongoing incident.