US intelligence agencies have started to study supply chain threats from Russia, a top official within the Justice Department confirmed on Thursday 6th of May, in the wake of the far-reaching hacker operations that used software developed by SolarWinds as well as other suppliers.
SolarWinds Inc. is an American multinational that creates software to help companies manage their IT infrastructure, systems, and networks. It is based in Austin, Texas, and has distribution and product development branches at several US locations and other countries.
According to John Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, the examination will concentrate on any supply chain vulnerabilities arising from Russian businesses—or US businesses operating in Russia.
“If there’s a back-end software design and coding being done in a country where we know that they’ve used sophisticated cyber means to do intrusions into U.S. companies, then maybe … U.S. companies shouldn’t be doing work with those companies from Russia or other untrusted countries,” Demers stated during a Justice Department-hosted cybersecurity conference.
Demers stated that any information gathered from the Commerce Department would be passed on to the FBI and the other intelligence officials to determine whether more actions are required to remove suppliers from the U.S. supply chains or not.
The White House accused the Russian SRV foreign intelligence agency of the spying operation which used the software o
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