#Teamcity hack software#The company, which was founded by three Russian engineers in the Czech Republic, makes a tool called TeamCity that helps developers test and manage software code. While SolarWinds software has been widely suspected as the initial way hackers got in, The New York Times on Wednesday reported that investigators are examining the role another software supplier, JetBrains, may have played. While that’s good news, sensitive information routinely flows through non-classified systems. Wednesday’s statement said that investigators have no indication that the department’s classified network has been breached. On Tuesday, officials with the National Security Agency, FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a joint statement saying that the Kremlin was ”likely” behind the hack, which began no later than October 2019. Private companies including Microsoft and security firm FireEye have also said they were part of this group. Advertisementįurther Reading Bucking Trump, NSA and FBI say Russia was “likely” behind SolarWinds hackSo far, about a half-dozen federal agencies have said they were among those singled out. Only a fraction of the 18,000 customers received a follow-on attack that used the backdoored SolarWinds software to view, delete, or alter data stored on those networks. #Teamcity hack update#The attackers then pushed out a malicious update that was installed by about 18,000 of those customers. Investigators believe the campaign started when the hackers took control of the software distribution platform of SolarWinds, an Austin, Texas-based maker of network management software that’s used by hundreds of thousands of organizations. The department has more than 100,000 employees. The hackers, Raimondi said, took control of the department’s Office 365 system and accessed email sent or received from about 3 percent of accounts. Further Reading Russian hackers hit US government using widespread supply chain attackIn a terse statement issued Wednesday, Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi said that the breach wasn’t discovered until December 24, which is nine days after the hack campaign came to light.
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