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requiring federal agencies to disable SolarWinds' Orion software because it posed a substantial security threat.
Such"hacking" announcements, seemingly constant, are often difficult to assess regarding severity, and they almost always provoke reporting that screams greater and greater vulnerability.
SolarWinds has more than 320,000 customers in 190 countries. The infected software was widely used by federal government agencies to monitor network activity and SolarWinds later estimated that nearly 18,000 of its users received the compromised software update. The Russian government was in, spying on compromised federal agency computers from May through December, reading emails and other documents.
Beginning in September 2019, cyberattacks perpetrated by Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service breached the computing network of SolarWinds—an Austin, Texas-based network management company. The Russians managed, over five months, to inject hidden code into a file that later went out as part of SolarWinds' regular software updates for the Orion platform, their business software. The Trojan malware provided Russia with a"backdoor" to access infected computers.
Did a Russian cyberattack affect the election? Officials couldn't be sure. Election personnel sort absentee ballot applications for storage at the Gwinnett County Board of Voter Registrations and Elections offices on November 7, 2020 in Lawrenceville, Georgia.Just after the election, FireEye, a cybersecurity firm, detected an intrusion to its own systems and informed SolarWinds of the compromise of the Orion platform.
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