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Suspected Russian hackers used Microsoft vendors to breach customers without SolarWinds software
The suspected Russian hackers behind the worst US cyberattack in years leveraged reseller access to Microsoft services to penetrate targets that had no compromised network software from SolarWinds, investigators said.While updates to SolarWinds’ Orion software was previously the only known point of entry, security company CrowdStrike said Thursday hackers had won access to the vendor that sold it Office licences and used that to try to read CrowdStrike’s email. It did not specifically identify…