SolarWinds says fewer than 18,000 customers installed malware-laced Orion software update that led to US Treasury hack

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Update to remove malware planned for release today

Software provider SolarWinds stated on Monday that fewer than 18,000 of its customers are thought to have downloaded a compromised software update, which enabled a nation-state hacker group to brea...

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