The platform monitoringSecurity vendor SolarWinds' Orion was hacked and is rumored to have been used in attacks against major US government agencies.
These attacks could be linked to a attack which we reported last week that resulted in the top leak hacking tools of the security company FireEye.
A statement from Kevin Thompson, President and CEO of SolarWinds, stated that the company "has a potential vulnerability which is believed to be related to updates March and June 2020 in Orion monitoring products ”.
"We believe this vulnerability was used in a highly sophisticated, targeted and manual chain attack by a state. We work closely with FireEye, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the intelligence community, and other law enforcement agencies to investigate these matters. So we are limited in what we can say at this time.”