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FireEye CEO: Reckless Microsoft hack unusual for China

by Frank BajakNathan Ellgren
| March 11, 2021 12:03 AM

RESTON, Va. (AP) — Cyber sleuths have already blamed China for a hack that exposed tens of thousands of servers running Microsoft's Exchange email program to potential hacks. The CEO of a prominent cybersecurity firm says it now seems clear China also unleashed an indiscriminate, automated second wave of hacking that opened the way for ransomware and other cyberattacks.

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