SolarWinds – the network monitoring biz thoroughly hacked as part of a wider espionage operation – has been sued by its shareholders who claim bosses failed to tell them about its numerous security woes.
Last month, it emerged the update server used by SolarWinds to distribute its Orion software had been subverted by miscreants to secretly inject a backdoor into the code so that hackers could infiltrate the computers of customers who installed the product. Said customers included tons of government organizations and corporations worldwide. And in a statement on Tuesday, the US government's National Security Council task force probing the tampering said it was highly likely those miscreants were Russian spies seeking out confidential and vital information.
"This work indicates that an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actor, likely Russian in origin, is resp ..
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