In the Wake of the SolarWinds Hack, Here's How Businesses Should Respond

Throughout 2020, businesses, in general, have had their hands full with IT challenges. They had to rush to accommodate a sudden shift to remote work. Then they had to navigate a rapid adoption of automation technologies. And as the year came to a close, more businesses began trying to assemble th...

CISA Malware Analysis on Supernova

CISA has released a malware analysis report on Supernova malware affecting unpatched SolarWinds Orion software. The report contains indicators of compromise IOCs and analyzes several malicious artifacts. Supernova is not part of the SolarWinds supply chain attack described in Alert AA20-352A. CIS...

North Korea Targets Security Researchers in Elaborate 0-Day Campaign

Hackers linked to North Korea are targeting security researchers with an elaborate social-engineering campaign that sets up trusted relationships with them — and then infects their organizations’ systems with custom backdoor malware. That’s according to Google’s Threat Analysis Group TAG, which...

Breaking Down Joe Biden's $10B Cybersecurity 'Down Payment'

President Joe Biden laid out a series of cybersecurity initiatives last week at his inauguration, including earmarking $10 billion for various cybersecurity defense initiatives. Those included hiring key security personnel to support for the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency CISA. The...

Talos Takes Ep. #37: What's with all this talk about supply chain attacks?

The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. The major SolarWinds campaign has been generating headlines for weeks now. And while its specific targets make this attack unique, this is...

Here's How SolarWinds Hackers Stayed Undetected for Long Enough

Microsoft on Wednesday shared more specifics about the tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs adopted by the attackers behind the SolarWinds hack to stay under the radar and avoid detection, as cybersecurity companies work towards getting a "clearer picture" of one of the most sophisticated...

Here's How SolarWinds Hackers Stayed Undetected for Long Enough

Microsoft on Wednesday shared more specifics about the tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs adopted by the attackers behind the SolarWinds hack to stay under the radar and avoid detection, as cybersecurity companies work towards getting a "clearer picture" of one of the most sophisticated...

Solarwinds Web Help Desk Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CNVD-2021-05123)

Solarwinds Web Help Desk is a suite of help desk and asset management software from Solarwinds USA. The software supports centralized knowledge base, IT asset management, project and task management, and more. SolarWinds Web Help Desk 12.7.0 suffers from a cross-site scripting vulnerability that...

Malwarebytes Hit by SolarWinds Attackers

Malwarebytes is the latest discovered victim of the SolarWinds hackers, the security company said – except that it wasn’t targeted through the SolarWinds platform. “While Malwarebytes does not use SolarWinds, we, like many other companies were recently targeted by the same threat actor,” it...

Deep dive into the Solorigate second-stage activation: From SUNBURST to TEARDROP and Raindrop

More than a month into the discovery of Solorigate, investigations continue to unearth new details that prove it is one of the most sophisticated and protracted intrusion attacks of the decade. Our continued analysis of threat data shows that the attackers behind Solorigate are skilled campaign...

Deep dive into the Solorigate second-stage activation: From SUNBURST to TEARDROP and Raindrop

More than a month into the discovery of Solorigate, investigations continue to unearth new details that prove it is one of the most sophisticated and protracted intrusion attacks of the decade. Our continued analysis of threat data shows that the attackers behind Solorigate are skilled campaign...

Malwarebytes says it was also breached by SolarWinds hackers

By Waqas According to Malwarebytes, SolarWinds hackers accessed its internal email communication. Here's what we know so far. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Malwarebytes says it was also breached by SolarWinds hackers...

SolarWinds Hackers Also Breached Malwarebytes Cybersecurity Firm

Malwarebytes on Tuesday said it was breached by the same group who broke into SolarWinds to access some of its internal emails, making it the fourth major cybersecurity vendor to be targeted after FireEye, Microsoft, and CrowdStrike. The company said its intrusion was not the result of a SolarWin...

SolarWinds Hackers Also Breached Malwarebytes Cybersecurity Firm

Malwarebytes on Tuesday said it was breached by the same group who broke into SolarWinds to access some of its internal emails, making it the fourth major cybersecurity vendor to be targeted after FireEye, Microsoft, and CrowdStrike. The company said its intrusion was not the result of a SolarWin...

The vulnerability of the SolarWinds Orion Platform monitoring platform lies in its ability to bypass authentication by using an alternative path or channel, allowing a perpetrator to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the SolarWinds Orion Platform monitoring platform relates to bypassing authentication by using an alternative path or channel. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code remotely...

The vulnerability of the software for monitoring performance of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) arises from the lack of protective measures for the website structure, allowing a perpetrator to carry out a cross-site scripting attack.

The vulnerability of the software for monitoring the performance of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is related to the lack of measures taken to protect the website structure. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to execute a cross-site scripting attack remotely...

Malwarebytes targeted by Nation State Actor implicated in SolarWinds breach. Evidence suggests abuse of privileged access to Microsoft Office 365 and Azure environments

A nation state attack leveraging software from SolarWinds has caused a ripple effect throughout the security industry, impacting multiple organizations. We first reported on the event in our December 14 blog and notified our business customers using SolarWinds asking them to take precautionary...

SolarWinds Malware Arsenal Widens with Raindrop

An additional piece of malware, dubbed Raindrop, has been unmasked in the sprawling SolarWinds supply-chain attacks. It was used in targeted attacks after the effort’s initial mass Sunburst compromise, researchers said. The SolarWinds espionage attack, which has affected several U.S. government...

Researchers Discover Raindrop — 4th Malware Linked to the SolarWinds Attack

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a fourth new malware strain—designed to spread the malware onto other computers in victims' networks—which was deployed as part of the SolarWinds supply chain attack disclosed late last year. Dubbed "Raindrop" by Broadcom-owned Symantec, the malware joins...

Researchers Discover Raindrop — 4th Malware Linked to the SolarWinds Attack

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a fourth new malware strain—designed to spread the malware onto other computers in victims' networks—which was deployed as part of the SolarWinds supply chain attack disclosed late last year. Dubbed "Raindrop" by Broadcom-owned Symantec, the malware joins...