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Microsoft President Brad Smith (Photo: Microsoft) More than 1,000 developers likely worked on rewriting code for the massive SolarWinds supply chain attack that affected many companies and U.S. government agencies, Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a Sunday interview, pointing out the attack is most likely continuing. In an interview with CBS News' "60 Minutes," Smith said the supply chain attack was "the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen." The U.S. federal agencies investigating the attack, which targeted Microsoft and other technology and cybersecurity comp...

Anne Neuberger will now oversee the investigation into the SolarWinds supply chain attack. The Biden administration has appointed Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology, to coordinate the investigation into the cyberattack that targeted SolarWinds and other organizations, following criticism from two senators that the probe has lacked coordination and transparency. On Wednesday, Emily Horne, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council. confirmed Neuberger was coordinating the ongoing investigation by the Cyber Unified Coordination Group, whi...

Photo: Mathew Schwartz What if there was something more insidious than hackers stealing data and crashing computers? For example, what if the hacking forced victims to lose faith in the reliability and security of digital tools, thus driving them to use analog alternatives that result in a massive slowdown of essential social processes - such as the nation's court system? Enter the SolarWinds supply chain attack, in which suspected Russian spies successfully planted a backdoor in widely used Orion network monitoring software. Hundreds of organizations appear to have been hit with follow-on at...

Microsoft Releases New Info on SolarWinds Attack Chain Threat actors went to elaborate lengths to maintain operational security around second-stage payload activation, company says. More than one month after the SolarWinds breach that impacted numerous organizations was first uncovered, new details of the sophisticated operation continue to trickle out. The latest information comes from Microsoft, which this week released details of its analysis of the tactics used by the threat actors to activate a second-stage payload for downloading the Cobalt Strike attack kit on infected systems. Related...

"One of the great challenges we face — in the United States, in particular — is the relative asymmetry of the threat in cyber," she said in response to senators' questions. "It is relatively easy for adversaries to hold at risk what are high-value assets to the United States given how much we rely on cyber and digital work for our economy, for our security [and] for so many different issues." In the wake of the SolarWinds supply chain attack that has led to thousands of compromises at companies and government agencies, cybersecurity officials will have to scramble to get up to speed. Whil...