SolarWinds attack continues to spur federal investigations into what happened, according to reports and congressional lawmakers. Reuters published a report Friday that the SEC has started asking publicly traded companies that were targeted in the attack for information about whether they were breached. The SEC inquiry is focused on the companies that downloaded a Trojanized update to the company’s Orion product that later helped install a backdoor onto their networks that the attackers could exploit. A bipartisan group of Florida lawmakers sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding answers about a breach of Microsoft Office 365 email accounts at multiple Department of Justice offices.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/solarwinds-attack-spurring-additional-federal-investigations-a-17510