Η platform security vendor SolarWinds' "Orion" monitoring system was breached and is rumored to have been used in attacks against major US government agencies.
These attacks could be linked to an attack we reported last week that resulted in leakage top hacking tools of the security company FireEye.
A statement from Kevin Thompson, president and CEO of SolarWinds, said the company "exists a potential vulnerability that is believed to be related to updates which were released between March and June 2020 in Orion monitoring products ”.
"We believe this vulnerability was exploited in a highly sophisticated, targeted and manual attack chains (chain attack) from a state. We are working closely with FireEye, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the intelligence community and other law enforcement authorities to investigate these matters. So we are limited in what we can say at this time.”