Security News > 2020 > December > US govt, FireEye breached after SolarWinds supply-chain attack
Trojanized versions of SolarWinds' Orion IT monitoring and management software have been used in a supply chain attack leading to the breach of government and high-profile companies after attackers deployed a backdoor dubbed SUNBURST or Solorigate.
SolarWinds' customer listing [1, 2] includes over 425 of the US Fortune 500, all top ten US telecom companies, hundreds of universities and colleges, all five branches of the US Military, the US Pentagon, the State Department, NASA, NSA, Postal Service, NOAA, Department of Justice, and the Office of the President of the United States.
SolarWinds is also working with Microsoft to remove an attack vector leading to the compromise of targets' Microsoft Office 365 office productivity tools.
SolarWinds was made aware of an attack vector that was used to compromise the Company's emails and may have provided access to other data contained in the Company's office productivity tools.
The hacking group behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack are focusing their attacks against a large assortment of worldwide targets including "Government, consulting, technology, telecom and extractive entities in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.".
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