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The President Ordered a Board to Probe a Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did.
(www.propublica.org)
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Maybe I’m not remembering things right, but the solarwinds attack was a supply chain attack. Their upstream code was manipulated internally which resulted in a downstream malicious dll.
I’m not sure how that’s MS’s fault.
You aren't misremembering, that's what we were all told however the reality was a bit different. MS had been ignoring a serious security vulnerability for years. That vuln was eventually used to breech SolarWinds and then that was leverage to breech everyone else.
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-what-you-need-to-know-cybersecurity
This thing is so fucking weird to me. Mircosoft argued that it's the companies fault for being hacked because a user account was compromised? Okay wise guy what about corporate espionage via a planted employee?
There were two supply chain attacks, one on solarwinds orion, the other on Microsoft Cloud Services.
Heres the vuln MS knew about in advance that allowed MS Cloud to be comprimised:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerologon
Correct.
And he was caught because his VPN had a lapse in the connection which exposed his actual IP address. It was a disgruntled employee. Not a Russian attack.
Though the Microsoft attack this year, I believe was Russian in origin.