How suspected Russian hackers outed their massive cyberattack POLITICO 12/17/2020 By Natasha Bertrand and Andrew Desiderio © AP Photo/Ben Margot Foreign hackers got caught after successfully logging in to top cybersecurity firm FireEye s network.
Foreign hackers who pulled off a stealthy breach of at least a dozen federal agencies got caught after successfully logging in to a top cybersecurity firm’s network, tipping the company off to a broader hacking campaign targeting the U.S. government, according to officials from the firm and congressional aides briefed on the issue.
The suspicious log-in prompted the firm, FireEye, to begin investigating what it ultimately determined to be a highly damaging vulnerability in software used across the government and by many Fortune 500 companies.
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Fox News senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane reacts.
Public and private agencies and businesses worldwide have been left urgently trying to determine if they have been hit by what could amount to one of the most extensive hacking campaigns in recent decades.
The fallout continues less than 48 hours after the U.S. government issued an emergency warning Sunday mandating government users disconnect from the breached network-management software, SolarWinds. In a nutshell, SolarWinds Orion product provides centralized monitoring across an organization s entire IT stack. That means the attackers who were able to compromise this platform had an extremely high level of access to all of these client systems, David Kennedy, CEO of TrustedSec told Fox News.