America's nuclear weapons agency was hacked by the suspected Russian spies who backdoored SolarWinds' IT monitoring software and compromised several US government bodies, and Microsoft was caught up in the same cyber-storm, too, it was reported Thursday.
The Windows giant uses SolarWinds' network management suite Orion, downloads of which were secretly trojanized earlier this year so that when installed within certain targets – such as the US government departments of State, Treasury, Homeland Security, and Commerce – the malicious code's masterminds could slip into their victims' networks, execute commands, read emails, steal data, and so on.
Reuters said Microsoft's security was "breached" by the same crew, and implied this was achieved either through Orion, or some other means, pointing out ..
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