WIRED
Widespread hacking continued to be on everyone’s minds this week, as countless companies and organizations continued to struggle with a slew of major hacks. Now that Microsoft’s patches have been out for awhile, an array of nation state and criminal actors are getting more aggressive about exploiting a set of Microsoft Exchange Server bugs that were already under active attack by the Chinese group Hafnium. Meanwhile, the White House is mulling a response to Russia’s recent, high-profile SolarWinds espionage campaign that compromised data at numerous United States government agencies and private companies around the world. For the Biden administration, the risk is that too strong a retaliation could erode norms and be seen as hypocritical given that the US and virtually every government engages in digital espionage.