It is the most far-reaching intrusion campaign ever known to date.
Still ongoing, the SolarWinds cyberattack - named after the software publisher unwittingly used as the main dissemination vector - has allowed very high level hackers to penetrate the information systems of tens of thousands of large companies. , critical infrastructure and government institutions.
Among them, the US Department of the Treasury, Commerce, Energy - responsible among other things for the security of the nuclear arsenal - or Homeland Security.
All the mechanisms of this operation, very sophisticated in its execution, are still far from being known.
Some attribute it to Russia
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To reach their targets, the attackers went through a service provider, the publisher SolarWinds.
They managed to infect, at least starting in March, an update file for SolarWinds' widely used Orion software platform.
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