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Updated: Jan 31, 2021


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Let's begin with this news story Austin-based SolarWinds at center of massive US government hack where we learn:

“We believe that this vulnerability is the result of a highly-sophisticated, targeted and manual supply chain attack by a nation state,” said SolarWinds CEO Kevin Thompson in a statement.
The compromise is critical because SolarWinds would give a hacker “God-mode” access to the network, making everything visible, said Alperovitch.

The company, Solar Winds, puts out a statement:



What is Orion platform? (emphasis mine)

Solution Overview: Orion Platform is a comprehensive bandwidth performance management and fault management application that allows you to view the real-time statistics of your network directly from your web browser.


Homeland Security puts out a statement


We learn from Solar Winds website that they have over 3000 customers world wide. Though not listed we know that Dominion is a customer.


Update


Also from the above news story:

....that any actual infiltration of an infected organization required “meticulous planning and manual interaction.”

Meaning, I presume, wherever this occurred it required inside co-conspirators.

Update 12/17

This does not sound good:


Well this doesn't look suspicious at all


Update 12/18

Getting worse


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