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In March of last year, thousands of companies and U.S. government agencies were sent a routine software update. This happened regularly with SolarWinds Orion software. There was no reason to suspect anything was wrong with the update.
What they couldn t see at the time was a malicious piece of code buried deep within the update, a Trojan horse planted by Russian military hackers looking for a backdoor to important American computer networks.
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Brad D. Williams on July 01, 2021 at 3:42 PM
WASHINGTON: The US and UK governments today revealed a cyberespionage campaign conducted by Russia that is targeting “hundreds of organizations” worldwide, with a focus on US and European governments, militaries, and defense contractors. The advisory names the Department of Defense as a known target.
“These efforts are almost certainly still going on,” warns the joint adversary issued by the NSA, CISA, and the FBI in the US, as well as the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre.
The advisory attributes the campaign to the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 85th Main Special Service Center (GTsSS), military unit 26165. GRU is distinct from the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), which the US government said was behind the SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign.