SolarWinds Hack: Is NSA Doing the Same to Russia?
That's my "light on the Chicken Little, heavy on the realpolitik" hot take on the SolarWinds Orion supply chain attack. "What if CIA and NSA have already been doing to Russia what SVR did to the United States - just without getting caught doing it? It's important to remember that the apparent focus of the hack of Austin, Texas-based SolarWinds' software development pipeline, which resulted in the company's Orion network monitoring software being backdoored, was espionage. In particular, investigators have suggested that Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service may have been behind the hac...
Source: bankinfosecurity.com