Autodesk Disclosed it was Targeted in SolarWinds Hack

Autodesk has disclosed that it was also targeted by the Russian state hackers behind the large-scale SolarWinds Orion supply-chain assault, nearly nine months after finding that one of its servers had been compromised with Sunburst malware. 

It is an American multinational software corporation that makes software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries. 

In a recent 10-Q SEC filing, Autodesk stated. “We identified a compromised SolarWinds server and promptly took steps to contain and remediate the incidents.” 

“While we believe that no customer operations or Autodesk products were disrupted as a result of this attack, other, similar attacks could have a significant negative impact on our systems and operations.” 

While the company went on to state that there was no additional damage to its systems, the company’s announcement of the breach in its most recent quarterly results serves as a reminder to the world of how widespread the SolarWinds supply chain breach was. 

An Autodesk spokesperson told BleepingComputer that the attackers did not deploy any other malware besides the Sunburst backdoor, likely because it was not selected for second stage exploitation or the threat actors didn’t act quickly enough before they were detected. 

The spokesperson stated, “Autodesk identified a compromised SolarWinds server on December 13. Soon after, the serv

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