Last week brought news that multiple federal government agencies, including the US Treasury and Commerce departments, had been compromised after installing a booby-trapped update for network monitoring software SolarWinds Orion.
It’s believed that hackers working at the behest of the Russian government breached SolarWinds and deployed the malware-packed update. Codenamed Sunburst, the attack is believed to have been used in the breach on cybersecurity giant FireEye.
