Russia's SolarWinds hack has no easy fix, cybersecurity company says

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Efforts to assess the impact of a more than 7-month-old cyberespionage campaign blamed on Russia — and boot the intruders — remain in their early stages, says the cybersecurity firm that discovered the attack.

The intruders have stealthily scooped up intelligence for months, carefully choosing targets from the roughly 18,000 customers infected with malicious code they activated after sneaking it into an update of network management software first pushed out last March by Texas-based SolarWinds.early daysThe public has not heard much about who exactly was compromised because many victims still can’t figure out what the attackers have done and thus “may not feel they have an obligation to report on it.

On top of that, he said, the hackers “will continue to obtain access to organizations. There will be new victims.”hat the hackers had viewed some of its source code. It said it found “no indications our systems were used to attack others.”

 

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Looks like they could also use some help with their 'climate change' efforts!

The same agency (Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) that didn’t know fed/state/local govt agencies & unknown private entities were compromised by Russia for 7 mnths also said the 2020 elections were the most secure in history!!!!! 🤔

And yet not a word from Trump. How long until the pee pee tape drops?

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