
Last month’s uncovering of the SolarWinds supply chain attack caused waves of panic and chatter across the U.S. and all over the world. How did such a widely-used and important software get breached? And are even the supposedly best-protected companies (and their customers) still at risk of compromise? Bit by bit, more information is being discovered about the famous attack we all recently witnessed. It is supposed that Russian nation-state actors are behind the breach that poisoned a SolarWinds software update, delivering the Sunburst backdoor to around 18,000 organizations and companies, including large tech companies such as Microsoft, FireEye and more. Even President Joe Biden is facing pressure from security advisors to urgently address what is being called one of the worst data breaches to ever hit the U.S. government. Since the original headlines outlining the Sunburst supply chain variant, additional malware strains involved in the attacks have also been discovered.
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