The nation state threat to business
The SolarWinds hack shows the widespread damage possible from a nation state cyber attack. What is the threat to business and how can it be mitigated?
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Published: 08 Jan 2021
In December 2020, it emerged that IT firm SolarWinds had been hacked by a nation state adversary believed to be Russia, leading to the compromise of multiple US government agencies.
Thought to have been active since March, the details of the successful supply chain attack were extraordinary. Hackers had stealthily injected an updated version of SolarWinds’ monitoring software with malicious code, which was then installed onto around 18,000 customers’ systems.