Contextualizing Microsoft’s Source Code Exposure in the SolarWinds Attacks

In the middle of December, IT management software provider SolarWinds revealed in a security advisory that it had fallen victim to a sophisticated supply chain attack. The offensive involved the placement of a backdoor known as SUNBURST into versions 2019.4 HF 5, 2020.2 with no hotfix installed and 2020.2 HF 1 of the company’s Orion Platform software. If executed, SUNBURST allowed an attacker to compromise the server running the Orion build.

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