Thomas Bossert, former Homeland Security adviser to President Trump, in a Wednesday op-ed said there is evidence that Russia is to blame for what he called a "brazen" cyberattack on software company SolarWinds through cybersecurity company FireEye. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the foreign cyberattack involving SolarWinds Orion products, which is now under FBI investigation, on Sunday and directed all federal agencies to inspect their networks. will surely have used its access to further exploit and gain administrative control over the networks it considered priority targets. The Department of Defense said Thursday it has found "no evidence of compromise" in its information network. About 33,000 companies use SolarWinds Orion products, according to the software company, which estimates that about 18,000 companies were directly impacted by the hack.

Source: Fox News December 17, 2020 16:41 UTC