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Experts who wrestled with SolarWinds hackers say cleanup could take months

By Raphael Satter

Dec 28 2020 1:05PM

Or longer.

Experts who wrestled with SolarWinds hackers say cleanup could take months

Cybersecurity expert Steven Adair and his team were in the final stages of purging the hackers from a think tank's network earlier this year when a suspicious pattern in the log data caught their eye. The spies had not only managed to break back in – a common enough occurrence in the ...

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