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Microsoft: SolarWinds attack took more than 1,000 engineers to create – ZDNet
Microsoft reckons that the huge attack on securit vendors and more took the combined power of at least 1,000 engineers to create.
The months-long hacking campaign that affected US government agencies and cybersecurity vendors was “the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen,” Microsoft president Brad Smith has said, and involved a vast number of developers.
The attack, disclosed by security firm FireEye and Microsoft in December, may have impacted as many as 18,000 organizations as a result of the Sunburst (or Solorigate) malware planted inside SolarWinds’s Orion network management software.
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