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Detailed explanation-1: -The SolarWinds hack is the latest in a series of recent attacks blamed on Russian operatives. It is believed a Russian group known as Cozy Bear was behind attacks targeting email systems at the White House and the State Department in 2014.

Detailed explanation-2: -China – a Hotbed of Hackers More than a third of all cyber attacks are instituted in China, where the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) even employs military units that are specialized in network attack and defense.

Detailed explanation-3: -Instead, a private cybersecurity firm called FireEye was the first to notice the breach when it noticed that its own systems were hacked. FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia testified in February after the US Senate summoned SolarWinds as well as Microsoft, CrowdStrike to a series of hearings over the sweeping breach.

Detailed explanation-4: -1988. The first major cyber attack on the internet came courtesy of Cornell grad student Robert Morris. The “Morris Worm” struck in the year before the World Wide Web debuted, back when the internet was primarily the domain of academic researchers.

Detailed explanation-5: -How Russia Used SolarWinds To Hack Microsoft, Intel, Pentagon, Other Networks Russian hackers exploited gaps in U.S. defenses and spent months in government and corporate networks in one of the most effective cyber-espionage campaigns of all time. This is how they did it.