If you were hoping the SolarWinds hack was going to be a one-off, you’re out of luck. Expect more sophisticated and complicated attacks of the same type to come along sooner or later. The SolarWinds hack – a supply chain attack that saw (most likely Russian state-backed) hackers use SolarWinds’ enterprise IT-monitoring software to deploy malware – hit a number of big-name US tech vendors. .
Link: SolarWinds attack is not an outlier, but a moment of reckoning for security industry, says Microsoft exec
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