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update for a solarwinds product. when that update went out to 18,000 organizations around the world, so did this malware. >> reporter: the orion platform is the underlying foundation -- >> reporter: solarwinds' orion is one of the most ub iblthous software products you probably never heard of. but to thousands of i.t. departments worldwide it's indispensable. it's made up of millions of lines of computer code. 4,032 of them were clan destinly rewritten and distributed to customers in a routine update, opening up a secret back door to the 18,000 infected networks. microsoft has assigned 500 engineers to dig into the attack. one compared it to a rembrandt painting. the closer they looked, the more details emerged. >> when we analyzed everything that we saw at microsoft, we
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asked ourselves, how many engineers had probably worked on these attacks? and the answer we came to was, well, certainly more than 1,000. >> reporter: you guys are microsoft. how did microsoft miss this? >> i think that when you look at the sophistication of this attacker there's an asymmetric advantage for somebody playing offense. >> reporter: is it still going on? >> almost certainly these attacks are continuing. >> reporter: the world still might not know about the hack if not for fireeye, a $3.5 billion cybersecurity company run by kevin mandia, a former air force intelligence officer. >> i can tell you this. if we didn't do investigations for a living, we wouldn't have found this. it takes a very special skill set to reverse engineer a whole platform that's written by bad guys to never be found. >> reporter: fireeye's core mission is to hunt, find and expel cyberintruders from the
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computer networks of their clients, mostly governments and major companies. but fireeye used solarwinds software, which turned the cyber hunter into the prey. this past november one alert fireeye employee noticed something amiss. >> just like everybody working from home, we have two fact authentication. a code pops up on our code, we have to type in that code, and then we can log in. a fireeye employee was logging in, but the difference was our security staff looked at the log-in and we noticed that individual had two phones registered to their name. so our security employee called that person up, and we asked, hey, did you actually register a second device on our network? and our employee said no, it wasn't me. >> reporter: suspicious, fireeye turned its gaze inward and saw intruders impersonating its employees snooping around inside their network, stealing
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fireeye's proprietary tools to test its clients' defenses and intelligence reports on active cyberthreats. the hackers left no evidence of how they broke in. nofishi phishing expeditions. no malware. >> so how did you trace this back to solarwinds software? >> it was not easy. we took a lot of people and said turn every rock over, look in every machine and find any trace of suspicious activity. what kept coming back was the earliest evidence of compromise is the solarwinds system. and we finally decided, tear the thing apart. >> reporter: they discovered the malware inside solarwinds. and on december 13th informed the world of the brazen attack. much of the damage had already been done. the u.s. justice department acknowledged the russians spent months inside their computers accessing e-mail traffic. but the department won't tell us
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exactly what was taken. it's the same at treasury, commerce, the nih, energy, even the agency that protects and transports our nuclear arsenal. the hackers also hit the biggest names in high tech. so what does that target list tell you? >> i think this target list tells us that this is clearly a foreign intelligence agency. it exposes the secrets potentially of the united states and other governments as well as private companies. i don't think anyone knows for certain how all of this information will be used. but we do know this -- it is in the wrong hands. >> reporter: and microsoft's brad smith told us it's almost certain theac created additional back doors and spread to other networks. the revelation this past december came at a fraught time in the u.s. president trump was disputing the election and tweeted china
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might be responsible for the hack. within hours he was contradicted by his own secretary of state and attorney general. they blamed russia. the department of homeland security, fbi, and intelligence agencies concurred. the prime suspect? the svr, one of several russian spy agencies the u.s. labels advanced persistent threats. russia denies it was involved. >> i do think this was an act of recklessness. the world runs on software. it runs on information technology. but it can't run with confidence if major governments are disrupting and attacking the software supply chain in this way. >> that almost sounds like you think that they went in to foment chaos. >> what we are seeing is the first use of this supply chain disruption tactic against the united states. but it's not the first time we've witnessed it. the russian government really
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developed this tactic in ukraine. >> reporter: for years the russians have tested their signar weaposign cyber weapons on ukraine. notpetya a 2017 attack by g.r.u. russia's spy agency, used the same tactic as the solarwinds attack, sabotaging a widely used piece of software to break into thousands of ukraine's networks. but instead of spying it ordered devices to self-destruct. > it literally damaged more than 10% of that nation's computers in a single day. the television stations couldn't produce their shows because they relied on computers. automated teller machines stopped working. grocery stores couldn't take a credit card. now, what we saw with this more targeted. but it just shows how if you engage in this kind of tactic you can unleash an enormous amount of damage and havoc. >> you can see the full report
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employee and myself. two people to be able to administer 4,000 vaccines. on top of that running a pharmacy is not something that's possible. but having an army of volunteers behind you, they're doing it because they love every single person in this community and because this is a community effort. >> getting an e-mail with -- >> reporter: 400 people have signed up to man the phones and coordinate appointments with just 24 to 36 hours' notice. >> once the vaccines come into our pharmacy and get put into the freezer, then it's time to move into action. we have to call and/or e-mail 1,000 people to let them know that the vainarved. organize by communy noristown. one of the county's hardest hit areas. >> you see people one day and the next day they have covid, they're getting sick and a lot of people we know have lost relatives. >> are you ready? >> i'm ready. >> reporter: tanya hall says she likely would have had to wait until may to get a vaccine. >> you're done.
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the race that's been designed for you. the push for racial equality is now taking hold in the world of high fashion. and as roxana saberi reports from london, it's been a long time coming. >> reporter: when beverley johnson posed for the cover of "vogue" in 1974, she made history. >> there had never been a black woman on that cover. and i realized the responsibility that came with this. >> reporter: she says in the decades since she requested black photographers and makeup artists but was reprimanded and that she often earned less from modeling jobs than her white peers. >> and racism was alive and thriving. >> reporter: what has changed? >> it's -- it's been an amazing
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moment i think in the world. people are finally listening. >> reporter: listening as the black lives matter movement has amplified calls for the fashion industry to tackle accusations of racism. from this blackface sweater by gucci and this burberry hoodie featuring a noose to a widespread lack of diversity. kenya hunt is the deputy editor at grazia uk magazine. >> you see the exclusivity at every level of the industry. you know, the magazines, what do magazine staffs look like? what do the board of directors of a lot of these big brands look like? >> reporter: so when big brands showed support for black lives matter, some critics accused them of hypocrisy. but if you look at recent fashion weeks, big fashion issues and pledges to back black-owned businesses, hunt says black lives matter is starting to make a big impact. what effects have you seen on the fashion industry? >> it's empowered people to really speak candidly and honestly about their own
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experiences. >> so this is like i quote the tribal. >> reporter: people like oswald boateng. he was the first black head designer at a luxury fashion house, givenchy. he was honored by queen elizabeth and has put on shows across the world. still, he says for years he absorbed racism silently. >> if i was white, what would be the difference, right? would it have been as hard? would i be maybe more successful? >> reporter: boateng is calling for more opportunities for people of color and reparations for the descendants of enslaved people. >> you've got to look at the whole picture. there needs to be a shift -- actually, which by the way is happening. >> reporter: beverley johnson also sees a shift. she's pushing her industry to interview at least two black professionals for each influential role. >> i'm having some meaningful conversations with some titans in the fashion industry. >> reporter: and though conversations are just a start, she says they can lead to real
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resolutions to racism in fashion and beyond. roxana saberi, cbs news, london. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this friday. reportin rom the it's friday, april 16th, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." breaking news -- another mass shooting. at least eight people killed at a fedex facility overnight in indianapolis. the latest on the investigation. you're making this a personal thing, and it isn't. >> it's not a personal thing. >> you are. that is exactly what you're doing. >> clashing over covid. the fiery exchange between republican congressman jim jordan and dr. anthony fauci. wild ride. a driver smashes through traffic barriers and jumps a rising barriers and jumps a rising drawbridge. captioning funded by cbs good morning. good to be with you.

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