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SolarWinds Hacking Damage Could Take up to 18 Months to Recover

3 March 2021, 5:23 am EST By SolarWinds was one of the most malicious attacks against the American government and major agencies. First discovered in November 2020, the hacking campaign went against the government and its major companies by gaining its users sensitive and personal data. At least nine federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department, were targeted. The attackers exploited the product SolarWinds, a U.S. software, to hack these corporate and government targets.   (Photo : (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)) WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 17: Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House on February 17, 2021 in Washington, DC. Neuberger told reporters that 9 federal agencies and around 100 companies were impacted by the SolarWinds cyber hacking event.

House SolarWinds Hearing Focuses on Updating Cyber Laws

China Tied to Separate SolarWinds Espionage Campaign

Get Permission Data breaches often turn out to be worse than they first appear, as investigators begin probing exactly what happened and when. The massive SolarWinds supply chain attack, which was identified by FireEye in December 2020 after it traced back a breach of its systems that resulted in the theft of penetration testing tools, has already fit that mold in spades. Now, it appears that attackers had backdoored SolarWinds Orion network monitoring software by last March, which was used by 18,000 customers. Incident responders have been racing to identify exactly who then got hit with second-stage attacks via the Orion backdoor, dubbed Sunburst, as well as what types of information they may have stolen. Victims are suspected to number in the hundreds, and are known to include Microsoft and Cisco, as well as the U.S. government s Commerce, Energy, Homeland Security, Justice, Labor, State and Treasury departments.

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