US nuke agency hacked by suspected Russian SolarWinds spies, Microsoft also installed backdoor
Windows giant, nuclear administration play down danger – and kill switch found and activated Share Copy America's nuclear weapons agency was hacked by the suspected Russian spies who backdoored SolarWinds' IT monitoring software and compromised several US government bodies, and Microsoft was caught up in the same cyber-storm, too, it was reported Thursday. The Windows giant uses SolarWinds' network management suite Orion, downloads of which were secretly trojanized earlier this year so that when installed within certain targets – such as the US government departments of State, Tre...