JetBrains a software company based in the Czech Republic could possibly be used as a doorway by Russian hackers to secure access to United States private sector systems and federal government systems. American intelligence agencies and private Cybersecurity researchers are investigating the position of a software company that could possibly be used as a pathway by Russian hackers to inject malware that would glide to several technology firms.
JetBrains a software company established in Prague, Czech Republic has more than 1,200 employees and the company’s products are widely used across the globe by more than 300,000 companies and 9,000,000 developers which include 79 Fortune Global 100 companies and 95 Fortune 100 companies. JetBrains is widely recognized as a leading instrument for developing software.
Numerous leading companies like Citibank, Google, Netflix, HP, Twitter, Volkswagen, Expedia, NASA, Valve, Ubisoft, VMware, The New York Times, and Hewlett-Packard are among its consumers and it also has a major say in developing the software for Siemens – a leading supplier of technology in a sensitive framework such as nuclear and power plants.
Maxim Shafirov, the company’s chief executive officer stated in a post that “we have not been contacted by any government or security agency regarding this matter, nor are we aware of being under any investigation, if such an investigation is undertaken, the authorities can count on our full cooperation”.
SolarWinds, the company stationed in Austin, Texas is one of the primary consumers of JetBrains. TeamCity software is a product of JetBrains, it is a continuous integration and deployment system used for unit testing and code quality analysis. The software was utilized as a weapon by the threat actors to gain access to the SolarWinds TeamCity server by manipulating high severity vulnerabilities. However, JetBrains’ CEO denied all the allegations regarding the involvement of the company in the SolarWinds hack.
