- Feb 4, 2016
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Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has discovered the malware used by the SolarWinds hackers to inject backdoors in Orion platform builds during the supply-chain attack that led to the compromise of several companies and government agencies.
Sunspot, as it was dubbed by CrowdStrike, was dropped by the attackers in the development environment of SolarWinds' Orion IT management software.