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Security vendor FireEye uncovered the SolarWinds campaign when investigating a breach of its own network recently that resulted in several of its offensive hacking tools being stolen. As expected, the targeted attack has once again focused attention on the long-standing issue of supply chain and third-party security. It has also raised alarm about the extent to which Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) actors and threat actors from other countries may have insinuated themselves into, and a...

Hackers Used SolarWinds, an Obscure Texas IT Vendor, to Attack Top US Agencies While barely known outside geeky tech circles, its customer list boasts of every branch of the US military and four-fifths of the Fortune 500. Bloomberg | Dec 15, 2020 William Turton (Bloomberg) -- At the epicenter of the most sprawling cyber-attack in recent memory is a two-decade-old, Austin-Texas-based software maker called SolarWinds Corp. While barely known outside geeky tech circles, its customer list b...