Casting a wide intrusion net: Dozens burned with single hack

Cybersecurity threat analysts hope the snowballing of supply-chain hacks stuns the software industry into prioritising security. Otherwise, vendors risk the fate that has befallen SolarWinds. — Bloomberg

BOSTON: The SolarWinds hacking campaign blamed on Russian spies and the “grave threat” it poses to US national security are widely known. A very different – and no less alarming – coordinated series of intrusions also detected in December has gotten considerably less public attention.

Nimble, highly skilled criminal hackers believed to operate out of Eastern Europe hacked dozens of companies and government agencies on at least four continents by breaking into a single product they all used.