Get Permission The CEO of security firm Malwarebytes says the hackers who attacked SolarWinds also targeted his company and gained access to a "limited subset of internal company emails." "While Malwarebytes does not use SolarWinds [hacked software], we, like many other companies, were recently targeted by the same threat actor,” Malwarebytes CEO Marcin Kleczynski notes in a blog. The hackers appear to have exploited a dormant email protection tool within the company's Office 365 system to gain access to a subset of the firm's emails, he says. Malwarebytes was notified about the intrusion on Dec. 15, 2020, by the Microsoft Security Response Center. This was about the same time Microsoft notified security firm CrowdStrike of similar suspicious activity. The attempted intrusion against Crowdstrike was ultimately unsuccessful (see: