The 2020 pandemic accelerated global digitization and exposed rising cyber risks in supply chains. This concern escalated in December when SolarWinds revealed a major supply chain breach affecting its Orion software. Attackers infiltrated Orion’s build environment and implanted SUNSPOT, a previously unknown malicious tool, to insert backdoors into software updates. The compromised updates were distributed to thousands of customers, highlighting how deeply supply chain vulnerabilities can impact organizations worldwide and underscoring the need for stronger security in software development processes.

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