SolarWinds hack
√The ‘SolarWinds hack’, a cyberattack recently discovered in the USA.
√It has emerged as one of the biggest ever targeted against the US government, its agencies and several other private companies.
√This is being called a ‘Supply Chain’ attack.
√Instead of directly attacking the federal government or a private organisation’s network, the hackers target a third-party vendor, which supplies software to them.
√In this case, the target was an IT management software called Orion, supplied by the Texas-based company SolarWinds.
√Orion has been a dominant software from SolarWinds with clients, which include over 33,000 companies.
√The hackers gained “access to victims via trojanized updates to SolarWinds’ Orion IT monitoring and management software.
√Once installed, the malware gave a backdoor entry to the hackers to the systems and networks of SolarWinds’ customers.
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