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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:
Cyberattack on US Govt agencies still underway: FBI, Intelligence Agencies ANI | Updated: Dec 17, 2020 08:32 IST
Washington [US], December 17 (ANI/Sputnik): The cyberattack on the US government agencies is still a developing situation, a joint statement of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said. Over the course of the past several days, the FBI, CISA, and ODNI have become aware of a significant and ongoing cybersecurity campaign. Pursuant to Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) 41, the FBI, CISA, and ODNI have formed a Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG) to coordinate a whole-of-government response to this significant cyber incident. The UCG is intended to unify the individual efforts of these agencies as they focus on their separate responsibilities. This is a developing situation, and while we continue to wo
FBI scrambles to assess damage from Russia-linked US government hack
ABCNews U.S. officials have been scrambling to assess the damage from a potentially devastating breach across multiple U.S. government computer networks, include those at the State, Commerce and Treasury departments, and the nation s cybersecurity agency on Thursday issued an alert saying the threat posed a grave risk to the Federal Government and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments as well as critical infrastructure entities and other private sector organizations.
The FBI, meanwhile, said it is investigating and gathering intelligence on the breach, according to a statement released Wednesday night, but officials have said little else, and President Donald Trump has yet to comment on the attack, which officials have told ABC News is believed linked to Russia.
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