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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said that the foreign hackers had compromised “U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure entities, and private sector organizations” beginning “at least” in March and that the cyber actors “demonstrated patience, operational security, and complex tradecraft in these intrusions.”
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[IT vendor] SolarWinds acknowledged Sunday night that its systems had been compromised by hackers who infiltrated the company's Orion software updates in order to distribute malware to its customers' computers. Before the customers were removed from the company website, it boasted its 300,000 customers included "more than 425 of the US Fortune 500," the 10 biggest telecommunications companies in the United States, "all five branches" of the U.S. military, and a number of different government agencies.
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Thomas Bossert, a former Trump homeland security adviser, warned in the New York Times on Wednesday that “the magnitude of this ongoing attack is hard to overstate.” He said that “the Russians have had access to a considerable number of important and sensitive networks for six to nine months” and that “the logical conclusion is that we must act as if the Russian government has control of all the networks it has penetrated.” If Russian culpability is established for the hacks of U.S. government agencies, it would hearken back to Russia’s large-scale hacking of the State Department in 2014.