Executives with technology companies impacted by the massive cybersecurity breach known as the SolarWinds hack are giving U.S. lawmakers more reason to worry, warning the intrusion is both bigger and more dangerous than first realized.
Executives with technology companies impacted by the massive cybersecurity breach known as the SolarWinds hack are giving U.S. lawmakers more reason to worry, warning the intrusion is both bigger and more dangerous than first realized.
The officials, including those from FireEye, the cybersecurity firm that first discovered the breach last December, and SolarWinds, the Texas-based software management company at the center of the hack, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday and told lawmakers they are still trying to assess the damage.
Amazon’s lack of public disclosure on SolarWinds hack angers lawmakers
File Photo: Amazon’s data centers housed servers that were used in a critical stage of the SolarWinds attack
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Dustin Volz,
, The Wall Street Journal
Tech giant says it wasn’t breached, but it is seen as having valuable data on the attack
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As lawmakers and security researchers continue to unravel the SolarWinds hack, some are growing more frustrated with Amazon.com Inc., saying the cloud-computing giant should be more publicly forthcoming about its knowledge of the suspected Russian cyberattack.
There are no indications that Amazon’s systems were directly breached, but hackers used its sprawling cloud-computing data centers to launch a key part of the attack, according to security researchers. The operation has been described as one of the worst instances of cyber espionage in the nation’s history.
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The hackers managed part of the malware campaign with Amazon cloud hosting and used several techniques to hack their targets, say lawmakers and company heads from SolarWinds, Microsoft, Crowdstrike and FireEye.
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