SolarWinds expenses due to cyber attack in its supply chain amounted to $3.5 million, including incident investigation and remediation costs. It will take the US government from a year to 18 months to fully recover from the SolarWinds hack.

SolarWinds noted additional expenditures after paying for legal, consulting and other professional services related to the December hack. However, according to company representatives, even higher costs are expected in the future.

“We expect an increase in expenses on insurance, finance, compliance with regulatory requirements, as well as compliance with tightening legal and regulatory requirements,” – the company [...]

In January 2021, it became known that the information security company Malwarebytes was the victim of an attack by the same hackers that attacked SolarWinds. At the same time, it was emphasized that Malwarebytes did not use SolarWinds products at all, did not install the version of Orion infected with malware, and the cybercriminals used “another vector of invasion” to gain access to its internal emails.

Now Brandon Wales, acting head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Agency (DHS CISA), said that overall, about a third of the companies attacked by these hackers were not directly related to [...]