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SolarWinds Hack: Unparalleled Supply Chain Attack Results in Potential Compromise of Private and Public Sector Organizations

December 17, 2020 By Kim Peretti and Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

On Sunday, December 13, 2020, SolarWinds announced that it had learned of a “highly sophisticated, manual supply chain attack” by a nation state affecting its Orion Platform, which is used by a wide variety of public and private sector organizations for IT infrastructure monitoring and management.  In this attack, adversaries were able to compromise the […]

Filed Under: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Data Security, Digital Crimes, National Security, Security Breach Tagged With: CISA, Cozy Bear, Department of Commerce (DOC), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), FireEye, Microsoft, ODNI, Russia, SolarWinds, Supply Chain Attack, Treasury

DOJ Charges Seven Individuals in Connection with Global Hacking Campaigns Against More Than 100 Companies

September 18, 2020 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

On September 16, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that seven individuals believed to be part of a hacking group known as APT41 or “Wicked Panda,” including five Chinese nationals and two Malaysian nationals, have been charged in connection with a global hacking campaign that affected more than 100 companies around the world. […]

Filed Under: China, Cybercrime, Digital Crimes, Enforcement, International Tagged With: APT41, China, Dead drop, Extradition, Hacker, indictment, Malaysia, Microsoft, Supply Chain Attack, Wicked Panda

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