Cybersecurity

Biden Team Vows Fast Response on SolarWinds, Microsoft Hacks

  • Official says executive action expected soon on SolarWinds
  • U.S. government, Microsoft working on patch for latest breach
The virtual Quadrilateral Security Dialogue meeting on March 12.Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
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The Biden administration said it’s moving quickly to respond to recent cyber attacks on the U.S., vowing executive action on a hack using SolarWinds Corp. software and working with Microsoft Corp. as users apply patches for the latest breach that company has faced.

A senior administration official, speaking to reporters Friday on the condition of anonymity, discussed the U.S. investigations into the two sprawling hacking campaigns -- one of which compromised the Microsoft Exchange email service and the other that leveraged popular software by Texas-based SolarWinds -- in order to breach American networks.