Get Permission
The FBI, CISA and the ODNI are leading the U.S. government s response to the apparent cyberespionage operation that backdoored the widely used SolarWinds Orion network monitoring software.
American technology giants Cisco and Intel are among the thousands of organizations that have been affected by the supply chain attack targeting software vendor SolarWinds and, by extension, its customers.
The attack campaign, which was first revealed Sunday by FireEye, one of its victims, centers on the Orion network monitoring software from SolarWinds, a technology firm based in Austin, Texas, that until recently had a valuation of about $1 billion.
While SolarWinds may be relatively unknown, the company has 300,000 customers, of which nearly 18,000 may have been caught up in the supply chain attack, which involved attackers adding a backdoor to the company s Orion software, apparently by having infiltrated its software development pipeline (see:
ہیکنگ کی حالیہ مہم سے نیٹ ورکس متاثر ہوئے: امریکی حکومت کی تصدیق urduvoa.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from urduvoa.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
While President Donald Trump keeps claiming with no evidence that computers were programmed to switch votes and alter the outcome of the election, he has so far said nothing about a real hack launched by Russia’s foreign intelligence service that experts call one of the widest, most sophisticated, and potentially most damaging in years.
The attack penetrated at least five U.S. government agencies and 18,000 other users of the Orion network management system, manufactured by a privately traded company called SolarWinds. Those five agencies the departments of State, Homeland Security, Commerce, and Treasury, and the National Institutes of Health are the only ones so far identified as victims of the hack, though there may have been others. (Ironically, one mission of Homeland Security is to protect the nation from cyberattacks.)