SolarWinds Sunburst attack

Yup… it gets worse… :cn:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-solarwinds-china-idUSKBN2A22K8

While the alleged Russian hackers penetrated deep into SolarWinds network and hid a “back door” in Orion software updates which were then sent to customers, the suspected Chinese group exploited a separate bug in Orion’s code to help spread across networks they had already compromised, the sources said.

…via…

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/02/another-solarwinds-orion-hack.html

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