Technology
Hackers Used Obscure Texas IT Vendor to Attack U.S. Agencies
- Attackers inserted vulnerability into SolarWinds’ software
- As many as 18,000 customers may have installed malicious code
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At the epicenter of the most sprawling cyber-attack in recent memory is a two-decade-old, Austin, Texas-based software maker called SolarWinds Corp. Little known outside of tech circles, its customer list boasts of every branch of the U.S. military and four-fifths of the Fortune 500.
Many of those customers found themselves ensnared in the attack because suspected Russian hackers inserted a vulnerability into a popular SolarWinds’ software product, designed to give users a bird’s eye view of the varied web of applications that keep their operations humming.