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In February, the CEO of SolarWinds revealed hackers had access to the firm s emails for at least nine months.
Hackers gained access to software made by the Texas-based company, and used it as a springboard to penetrate federal government networks.
Solarwinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna said the hackers accessed at least one of the firm s Office 365 email accounts by as early as December 2019, and then moved to compromise other Office 365 accounts within the company. Some email accounts were compromised, Mr Ramakrishna told the Wall Street Journal. That led them to compromise other email accounts and as a result our broader [Office] 365 environment was compromised.
Vladimir Putin profile (Image: Express)
Sanctions were imposed on several officers of Russia s intelligence unit by European diplomats who had linked to the Sandworm cyberattacks.
Traditionally, French authorities have been hesitant to attribute cyberattacks.
In December last year, a massive cyberattack which targetted the US nuclear arsenal was believed to be a direct attack by Russia.
The country s National Nuclear Security Administration identified suspicious activity in the networks of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories in New Mexico and Washington, as well as the Office of Secure Transportation and the Richland Field Office of the Department of Energy.
The boss of Microsoft has called the SolarWinds hack the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen.
The cyber raid identified in December exposed data from thousands of Wall Street s top companies and a handful of government agencies including the Treasury, Justice and Commerce departments.
The hackers, which the CIA said were likely deployed by Russia, used SolarWinds Orion platform as an open door to break into the computer systems of its 18,000 customers. I think from a software engineering perspective, it s probably fair to say that this is the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen, Smith told 60 Minutes on CBS.