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Nobelium, originating from Russia, is the same actor behind the attacks on SolarWinds customers in 2020
Executives from both firms have been put on the defensive over competing crises
Taiwan-based researchers reported to Microsoft on January 5 that they had found two new flaws which need patching
Microsoft blamed the initial wave of attacks on a Chinese government-backed actor
Microsoft had said before that the hackers had accessed some source code, but had not said which parts
SolarWinds, used by hackers as a springboard for the worst-known breach of US government computers
Hacking group behind the SolarWinds compromise was able to break into Microsoft and access some of its source code
Hackers inserted malicious code into Orion software updates pushed out to nearly 18,000 customers