Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the SolarWind hack, which he attributed to Russian intelligence operatives.
WASHINGTON: The stunning SolarWinds hack that cybersecurity experts blame on Russia likely took a massive, disciplined effort by more than 1,000 software engineers, Microsoft President Brad Smith said Tuesday.
Smith told a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee that no other body but Russian intelligence has the ability to muster such an effort, which he branded “reckless” in the breadth of its threat to the globe.
Microsoft, one of more than 100 companies attacked and 18,000 left vulnerable by the hack, analyzed the work it took to insert malware into widely used security software created by SolarWinds.
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