Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the UK and US were determined to stand together against what he described as Russia's 'malign behaviour'. CISA says that hackers were able to compromise the supply chain of network management software from SolarWinds, specifically recent versions of the SolarWinds Orion products. Beginning in March 2020, hackers used SolarWinds software updates to install a secret network backdoor, which authorities are calling SUNBURST. The compromise of the SolarWinds IT services firm - discovered last December - is thought to represent one of the most serious cyber espionage attacks suffered by the US. It said that it was part of a 'wider pattern of cyber intrusions' by the Russian spy agency dating back at least a decade.

Source: The Nation April 16, 2021 02:03 UTC