BOSTON – The SolarWinds hacking campaign blamed on Russian spies and the “grave threat” it poses to U.S. national security are widely known.
A very different — and no less alarming — coordinated series of intrusions also detected in December has gotten considerably less public attention.
Nimble, highly skilled criminal hackers believed to operate out of Eastern Europe hacked dozens of companies and government agencies on at least four continents by breaking into a single product they all used.
The victims include New Zealand’s central bank, Harvard Business School, Australia’s securities regulator, the high-powered U.S.