Security News > 2021 > September > Autodesk was one of the 18,000 firms breached in SolarWinds attack, firm admits

Autodesk, makers of computer-aided design software for manufacturing, has told the US stock market it was targeted as part of the the supply chain attack on SolarWinds' Orion software.

In a filing with the American Stock Exchange Commission, Autodesk said it had identified a compromised server in the wake of public reporting of the SolarWinds breach.

According to the US and UK governments, the attack saw spies from Russia's SVR agency compromise systems used to compile new builds of network monitoring software Orion.

While Autodesk went on to say that it found no further disruption on its systems, its mention of the breach in its latest quarterly results reminds the world just how far-reaching the SolarWinds supply chain compromise was.

The aftermath of the SolarWinds incident saw the UK and America team up to attribute it to the SVR, confirming widely held suspicions that the compromise was carried out by an exceptionally patient state-backed threat actor.

Although the SVR's infiltration of SolarWinds' build systems saw it gain access to 18,000 of the firm's Orion customers, further exploitation of that initial access was very limited in order not to blow the operation.

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