Suspected Russian hackers used Microsoft vendors to breach customers

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Suspected Russian hackers used Microsoft vendors to breach customers
The suspected Russian hackers behind the worst US cyber attack in years leveraged reseller access to Microsoft Corp services to penetrate targets that had no compromised network software from SolarWinds, investigators said. While updates to SolarWinds' Orion software was previously the only ...

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