Get Permission 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: