

Technology companies like Intel, Cisco, VMware, Nvidia and Belkin are part of the SolarWinds hack allegedly orchestrated by Russia-backed cybercriminals. SolarWinds, which disclosed its role at the centre of the global hack on Monday, said that up to 18,000 users of its Orion software downloaded a compromised update containing malicious code planted by the attackers.


The records show that the backdoors at Cox Communications and Pima County were activated in June and July this year, the peak of the hacking activity so far identified by investigators. John Bambenek, a security researcher and president of Bambenek Consulting, said he had also used the Kaspersky tool to decode the CNAME records published by FireEye and found they connected to Cox Communications and Pima County.
