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ExtremeTech Security Researcher: ‘solarwinds123’ Password Left Firm Vulnerable in 2019 By Joel Hruska on December 17, 2020 at 8:52 am This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The SolarWinds saga keeps getting worse as time goes by. Several days ago, news broke that some 18,000 companies had been compromised by a nation-state actor. The attackers in question are believed to be affiliated with Cozy Bear, aka APT29, aka the Russian government. The hack has hit multiple US government agencies, the security company FireEye, and a who...

Russia's Cozy Bear fingered, FireEye details injected backdoor and says it's worldwide Share Copy Updated SolarWinds' Orion IT monitoring platform has been compromised, and speculation is swirling it was used as a base camp by state-backed hackers to infiltrate major US government organizations. Kevin Thompson, SolarWinds president and CEO, said his company is "aware of a potential vulnerability" that may have been in "updates which were released between March and June 2020 to our Orion monitoring products." "We believe that this vulnerability is the result of a highly sophisticated, ...