The White House National Security Council (NSC) issued a rare emergency directive that ordered all federal civilian agencies to immediately power off and disconnect instances of SolarWinds. FireEye has released updatesincluding a hotfix todaythat it says addresses the issue in all impacted versions of its technology. Security experts as well as some members of Congress who received classified briefings on the attack, point to Russia as the likely perpetrator. The threat actor widely distributing a backdoor dubbed SUNBURST has all hallmarks of a nation state-backed actor.”]