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On Monday, Texas firm SolarWinds disclosed that up to 18,000 users of its popular Orion network-management software had been unwittingly infected, blaming what it termed an "outside nation-state."

Microsoft President Brad Smith, in a blog post Friday, said roughly 80% of affected customers were located inside the United States. Others were located in the UK, Belgium, Canada, Israel, Mexico, Spain and the United Arab Emirates.

Reuters, citing a British security source, said a small number of British organizations had been compromised but "not in the public sector."

"The scale is daunting," said James Lewis, vice president of the US Center for Strategic and International Studies, commenting on the disclosures.