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On Sunday, December 13, 2020, SolarWinds announced that it had learned of a highly
sophisticated, manual supply chain attack by a nation state
affecting its Orion Platform, which is used by a wide variety of
public and private sector organizations for IT infrastructure
monitoring and management. In this attack, adversaries were able to
compromise the Orion software build system for certain versions of
the software, and trojanized software updates were distributed to
customers between March and June 2020. According to SolarWinds,
this attack may affect as many as 18,000 customers. As a result of
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On Sunday, December 13, 2020, SolarWinds announced that it had learned of a “highly sophisticated, manual supply chain attack” by a nation state affecting its Orion Platform, which is used by a wide variety of public and private sector organizations for IT infrastructure monitoring and management. In this attack, adversaries were able to compromise the Orion software build system for certain versions of the software, and trojanized software updates were distributed to customers between March and June 2020. According to SolarWinds, this attack may affect as many as 18,000 customers. As a result of this attack, several key government agencies have reported that hackers were able to break into their networks, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as well as the Commerce and Treasury Departments. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within DHS has advised that both public and private
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On December 13, the software and service provider SolarWinds announced that its Orion software platform had been the target of a sophisticated cyber-attack that may have resulted in malicious code being pushed to as many as 18,000 customers. The SolarWinds software is used by many corporate and not-for-profit entities of all sizes to monitor the health of their IT networks. Although the details of this breach are still unfolding, based on the information currently available, Orion users who updated their software between March and June of this year are potentially affected.