SolarWinds: How Russian hackers dealt the US its worst cyberspace defeat in a decade
The cyber attack hit 18,000 businesses and has caused internal chaos for the US government 21 December 2020 • 3:30pm It was a tiny slip up from hackers that gave them away. Intruders who had been covertly probing the IT systems of FireEye, a Silicon Valley cyber security company, attempted to register a new computer into the network. The misstep from the hackers, alleged to be a Russia-backed group by US officials, has revealed a sweeping, months-long campaign of cyber espionage. The attack has quickly been labelled by those in the industry and former spooks as the most devastating def...
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