The agency was listed as a SolarWinds customer. The National Security Agency ( NSA) was apparently not aware until alerted by FireEye, The New York Timesreported. government agencies, putting sensitive information at risk of theft. The SolarWinds attack seemingly went undetected for months as hackers were able to sneak into U.S. "We looked through 50,000 lines of source code, which we were able to determine there was a backdoor within SolarWinds," Charles Carmakal, senior vice president and chief technical officer at Mandiant, told Bloomberg.įireEye confirmed on December 8 that its systems had been breached by "a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities." It said evidence suggested state-sponsored culprits had accessed its offensive hacking tools used to test its customers' security. law enforcement after discovering the far-reaching security compromise. Officials from California-based FireEye's incident response division, known as Mandiant, confirmed on Monday that its teams were first to raise the alarm to SolarWinds and U.S. A widespread hack of software giant SolarWinds was found by cybersecurity firm FireEye as it investigated how its own systems were infiltrated in the same campaign-which is suspected of being the work of Russia.
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