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WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Suspected Chinese hackers exploited a flaw in software made by SolarWinds Corp to help break into U.S. government computers last year, five people familiar with the matter told Reuters, marking a new twist in a sprawling cybersecurity breach that U.S. lawmakers have labeled a national security emergency.
Two people briefed on the case said FBI investigators recently found that the National Finance Center, a federal payroll agency inside the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was among the affected organizations, raising fears that data on thousands of government employees may have been compromised.
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The $36 billion security firm Palo Alto Networks almost fell victim to the hackers behind the massive SolarWinds attacks.
The firm detected an intrusion in late 2020 but isolated the issue before hackers could access anything, an exec told Insider.
It assumed it was a one-off hack attempt until the SolarWinds news broke and advises firms to isolate threats.
In late 2020, researchers at the cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks detected an attempt to download
In the Unit 42 ATOM Viewer, security pros can view in a table what tactics the attackers used, then click on a chart to see what to enable on a Palo Alto firewall.