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The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has said that Russia was responsible for the SolarWinds cyber attack late in 2020.
It claimed it is part of a pattern of malign behaviour around the world that operates in cyber space, election interference and the aggressive operations of intelligence service.
This follows warnings last December by SolarWinds, a network management software company, that its Orion monitoring network had been subject to a sophisticated supply chain attack that was likely conducted by an outside nation state.
The company has listed a range of UK public sector agencies among its clients, including several NHS trusts, the Cabinet Office, the Ministry of Justice, HM Government Communications Centre and Royal Air Force, Defence Equipment and Support.
The National Cyber Security Council (NCSC) has pointed organisations possibly affected by an attack on the Orion monitoring network towards advice provided by the company, security specialist FireEye and Microsoft.
This follows a confirmation by Orion’s supplier SolarWinds last week that the network, widely used in the UK public sector, has been subject to a sophisticated supply chain attack that was likely conducted by an outside nation state.
It has recommended an upgrade to the latest Orion Platform version 2020.2.1 HF 1. It has also provided guidelines for a secure configuration of the platform if an upgrade is not immediately possible.