Solar winds was just one of the gateways
Solar winds: starting point of a large-scale hacker attack. (Image: Travel_with_me / Shutterstock.com)
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The massive hacker attack that became known in December goes beyond solar winds. Companies with no connection to solar winds are also affected.
Since the Solarwinds hack was discovered in December, it has gradually become more and more extensive. Compared to the Wall Street Journal US investigators have stated that solar winds cannot have been the only gateway.
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Affected companies with no connection to Solarwinds
Almost a third of the companies affected have no connection at all to solar winds. The attackers had access to their targets in a variety of creative ways.
Previously, the security company Malwarebytes announced being affected by the same attack but having no connections to solar winds.
Same vulnerability, different provider
The investigators explain this phenomenon to the Wall Street Journal with the fact that the hackers were able to jump from one cloud computing account to the next, among other things, taking advantage of the same Microsoft configuration problems.
The investigation of the effects of the hack and, above all, the search for those responsible will probably take months. One theory is that a well-known Russian hacker group is responsible.
