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The announcement by the former FireEye was the first public clue to a massive espionage campaign that had been ongoing for most of 2020, which became known as the SolarWinds hack due to the hackers using a vulnerability in software from IT company SolarWinds to breach customer networks, among other avenues of attack.Īt least nine federal agencies and 100 private sector groups were breached as a result, and President Biden Joe Biden United, Delta cancel more than 200 Christmas Eve flights amid omicron surge Task force has reunited 100 children with families separated under Trump Suspect charged in Philadelphia carjacking of Democratic congresswoman MORE levied sanctions on Russia in April in retaliation. The new activity was announced by Mandiant almost exactly a year after the company, formerly known as FireEye, announced its systems had been breached by “a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities.”
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"Though Mandiant cannot currently attribute this activity with higher confidence, the operational security associated with this intrusion and exploitation of a third party is consistent with the tactics employed by the actors behind the SolarWinds compromise." “This intrusion activity reflects a well-resourced threat actor set operating with a high level of concern for operational security,” Mandiant researchers wrote in the report.
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history has only intensified its hacking efforts in the year since, research released Monday found.Ĭybersecurity group Mandiant on Monday released findings showing how the group, known as “Nobelium” or “UNC2452,” has continued to target governments and businesses, zeroing in on technology solutions and services groups, along with technology resellers, and using new tactics to make it more difficult to trace the threat activity and maintain access to networks. The Russian government-linked hacking group behind one of the biggest cyber espionage incidents in U.S.