SolarWinds

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