SolarWinds products have been injected with malicious code by state-backed hackers

In a statement, SolarWinds, an IT company said, monitoring products that it had released earlier this year in March and in June may have been surreptitiously tampered with in a “highly-sophisticated, targeted and manual supply chain attack by a nation state.” The statement by SolarWinds comes even as the U.S. intelligence community is investigating cyber…

Cyber security researchers attribute string of recent cyberattacks on virtual currency exchanges on North Korea-backed hackers

With much of its exports to China being blocked by U.N sanction, an impoverished and increasingly cornered North Korea has taken the cyber route to enriching itself. With the recent surge in the price of bitcoins, cyber security experts opine the net worth of its stolen tokens amount to $82 million. With more international sanctions…