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On Sunday, December 13, 2020, SolarWinds announced that it had learned of a "highly
sophisticated, manual supply chain attack" by a nation state
affecting its Orion Platform, which is used by a wide variety of
public and private sector organizations for IT infrastructure
monitoring and management. In this attack, adversaries were able to
compromise the Orion software build system for certain versions of
the software, and trojanized software updates were distributed to
customers between March and June 2020. According to SolarWinds,
this attack may affect as many as 18,000 customers. As a result of