Security News > 2021 > February > Microsoft says it found 1,000-plus developers' fingerprints on the SolarWinds attack
Microsoft president Brad Smith said the software giant's analysis of the SolarWinds hack suggests the code behind the crack was the work of a thousand or more developers.
Speaking on US news magazine program 60 Minutes, Smith labelled the attack "The largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen."
If anyone understands the havoc 1,000 developers can create, it's Microsoft.
Smith didn't say who those 1,000 developers worked for, but compared the SolarWinds hack to attacks on Ukraine that had been widely attributed to Russia.
FireEye also fell foul of the SolarWinds attack and Mandia revealed how his firm spotted the attack when an attempt at two-factor authentication raised suspicion.
Which it tried to, but the nature of this attack meant it was devilishly hard to detect.
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