Coast Guard releases bulletin on SolarWinds hack

Coast Guard Academy cadets test their network connection during the 2012 Cyber Defense Exercise (CDX) at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. U.S. Coast Guard photograph

SolarWinds recently reported a compromise of versions 2019.4 through 2020.2.1 HF1 of their Orion
Platform by “a highly sophisticated, targeted, and manual supply chain attack by an outside nation
state.”

The Orion Platform is a network management software used by numerous government agencies
and approximately 300,000 additional customers worldwide. It is believed that malicious code was
installed into software updates provided by SolarWinds to the platform’s customers. Once the update
was...

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