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The US government accused Russia of attacking SolarWinds and imposed sanctions on a number of companies

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 [...]

Security vendor FireEye and US authorities hit by SUNBURST malware attack

Last weekend, Reuters, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal reported that FireEye and the US authorities were hit by a government hacker attack on SolarWinds’ supply chain.

According to media reports, as a result of this operation were compromised the US Treasury Department and the National Information and Telecommunications Administration under the US Department of Commerce.

Shortly after these publications, representatives of the FireEye company released their own report on the incident.

According to the researchers, the attackers hacked into the software provider SolarWinds and then provided the Orion product with a malicious update. Due to the [...]

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