SolarWinds Hackers Breached Arizona County Government, Major Internet Provider
Hackers who exploited an update to the ubiquitous SolarWinds Orion network management software accessed the systems of Pima County, Arizona, and Cox Communications, a major cable internet provider.
The victims are just two of as many as 18,000 SolarWinds customers around the globe who installed the malicious update. The hack, which was first reported by cybersecurity firm FireEye, itself a SolarWinds customer, affected several U.S. government agencies, including the departments of Defense, State, Homeland Security, Energy, Treasury, and Commerce.
The hack is believed to be the biggest ever uncovered, prompting the U.S. government to assemble a multi-department task force to respond to the threat.
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they seized the deputy chief of that department. they threw a bag over his head, grabbed him under the arms and dragged him out of the room and he hasn t been seen since. that was a year ago. deputy chief arrested that day. we later learned that his deputy was also arrested. also arrested was a senior guy from kaspersky labs. the fsb colonel was the kaspersky s contact at the fsb. all three of them were taken into custody. the new york times later described the arrests as the highest profile arrests for treason in russia since the fall of the ussr in 1991. the russian government never put out a formal statement the arrests were for freetreason bu
we later learned that his deputy was also arrested. also arrested was a senior guy from kaspersky labs. the fsb colonel was the kaspersky s contact at the fsb. all three of them were taken into custody. the new york times later described the arrests as the highest profile arrests for treason in russia since the fall of the ussr in 1991. the russian government never put out a formal statement the arrests were for treason. but in january of this year, allowed news services to publish information about those arrests. and by that means, they let it be known they were treason arrests and that s the ground they were being held. well now, as we re all watching
specific but if you look at the hypothetical scenarios that are laid out in the statement accompanying that ban they re exactly parallel to what investigators believe happened here, that kaspersky was a scout to find files for the russian hackers they might be interested in and hone in on the particular contractor as you noted made the violation of taking classified material home with him from his office at the nsa. and, shane, can you tell us from your reporting if kaspersky software was able to identify first of all his computer that there was classified information on his computer, and then, further it could identify which files might be of interest to these spies? there s still some key things we don t know about precisely how it went about, the identification and we have
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