The US government has officially accused Russia of attacking SolarWinds and its clients and has imposed sanctions on a number of Russian companies. Joe Biden’s administration claims that the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service and its “government hackers” known as APT 29, Cozy Bear or The Dukes were behind the attack.

According to the authorities, they “used the SolarWinds Orion platform and other IT infrastructures as part of a large-scale cyber-espionage campaign.”

“Compromise of the SolarWinds’ supply chain by Russian Foreign Intelligence Service has enabled them to spy on and potentially disrupt more than 16,000 computer systems [...]

As expected, the list of companies that have become victims of the SolarWinds attack continues to grow with new names. It turned out that the high-profile attack on the supply chain affected the companies Mimecast, Palo Alto Networks, Qualys and Fidelis Cybersecurity. [dropcap]L[/dropcap]et me remind you that the attack on SolarWinds is attributed to a supposedly Russian-speaking hack group, which information security experts track under the names StellarParticle (CrowdStrike), UNC2452 (FireEye), and Dark Halo (Volexity).

In December 2020, it became known that unknown hackers had attacked SolarWinds and infected its Orion platform with malware.

Of the 300,000 SolarWinds [...]