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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On Sunday, December 13, 2020, SolarWinds announced that it had learned of a "highly sophisticated, manual supply chain attack" by a nation state affecting its Orion Platform, which is used by a wide variety of public and private sector organizations for IT infrastructure monitoring and management. In this attack, adversaries were able to compromise the Orion software build system for certain versions of the software, and trojanized software updates were distributed to customers between Marc...

| About | Andy Patrizio is a freelance technology writer based in Orange County, California. He's written for a variety of publications, ranging from Tom's Guide to Wired to Dr. Dobbs Journal. SolarWinds roundup: Fixes, new bad actors, and what the company knew Reporting since the SolarWinds hack was revealed indicates the company was warned about insecurities years ago, and another hack has been discovered. v-graphix / Getty Images The SolarWinds Orion security breach is unfolding at a rapid pace, and the number of vendors and victims continues to grow. Each day bring...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On Sunday, December 13, 2020, SolarWinds announced that it had learned of a “highly sophisticated, manual supply chain attack” by a nation state affecting its Orion Platform, which is used by a wide variety of public and private sector organizations for IT infrastructure monitoring and management.  In this attack, adversaries were able to compromise the Orion software build system for certain versions of the software, and trojanized software updates were distributed to customers between March and June 2020. According to SolarWi...

What Data Center IT Security Pros Must Know About the SolarWinds Vulnerability The unprecedented attack, whose full scope is yet to be determined, gave those behind it access to some of the most sensitive enterprise systems. On Sunday, we learned that federal agencies and other organizations had been penetrated by nation-state attackers, identified as Russian by multiple sources. Though the definitive attribution for the attacks won't come for a while, we do know how the attack occurred. SolarWinds Orion, a widely used network monitoring tool, had been compromised. In what's known as a ...

Five days after FireEye detailed the theft of about 300 of its proprietary cybersecurity tools, SolarWinds announced that its Orion IT monitoring platform had also been compromised by hackers believed to be sponsored by the Russian government. Together, the attack that originated with a SolarWinds vulnerability turned over critical cybersecurity infrastructure to the malicious actors, along with potential access to thousands of global entities’ sensitive information. As the cybersecurity world wraps its head around how two top vendors were breached, we examine the organizations involved, de...