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Get Permission The CEO of security firm Malwarebytes says the hackers who attacked SolarWinds also targeted his company and gained access to a "limited subset of internal company emails." "While Malwarebytes does not use SolarWinds [hacked software], we, like many other companies, were recently targeted by the same threat actor,” Malwarebytes CEO Marcin Kleczynski notes in a blog. The hackers appear to have exploited a dormant email protection tool within the companys Office 365 system to ga...

Get Permission In his first remarks about the massive hacking operation that leveraged a tainted SolarWinds Orion software update, President Donald Trump on Saturday downplayed the seriousness of the incident and contradicted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who pointed a finger at Russia in a Friday radio interview. In a pair of tweets on Saturday, Trump appeared to question whether Russia was involved in the hacking operation and opened up the possibility that China may have played a role. "T...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, commenting on the breach, said in a Friday evening radio interview that “the Russians engaged in this activity." “I can’t say much more as we’re still unpacking precisely what it is, and I’m sure some of it will remain classified," Pompeo said, according to a transcript provided by the State Department. “But suffice it to say there was a significant effort to use a piece of third-party software to essentially embed code inside of U.S. government syste...

BankInfoSecurity March 31, 2021 Twitter Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a Friday evening radio interview that “the Russians engaged in this activity." “I can’t say much more as we’re still unpacking precisely what it is, and I’m sure some of it will remain classified," Pompeo said, according to a transcript provided by the State Department. “But suffice it to say there was a significant effort to use a piece of third-party software to essentially embed code inside of U.S. go...