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Plus: Russian sanctions, Europe’s SolarWinds fallout, and more of this week’s top security news...

Did Someone at the Commerce Dept. Find a SolarWinds Backdoor in Aug. 2020?

On Aug. 13, 2020, someone uploaded a suspected malicious file to VirusTotal, a service that scans submitted files against more than five dozen antivirus and security products. Last month, Microsoft and FireEye identified that file as a newly-discovered fourth malware backdoor used in the sprawlin...

Biden Races to Shore Up Power Grid Against Hacks

President Biden is putting the final details on a plan to encourage American electric utilities to strengthen their cybersecurity protections against hackers in the next 100 days, amid increasing cyberattacks. The White House push to boost electrical grid security comes in the wake of a report th...

SolarWinds Hack – US officially Blames Russian Intel Agency Hackers

By Waqas The US has also revealed that 6 Russian technology firms were involved in developing tools that played a vital role in the SolarWinds hack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: SolarWinds Hack - US officially Blames Russian Intel Agency Hackers...

US Sanctions Russia and Expels 10 Diplomats Over SolarWinds Cyberattack

The U.S. and U.K. on Thursday formally attributed the supply chain attack of IT infrastructure management company SolarWinds with "high confidence" to government operatives working for Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service SVR. "Russia's pattern of malign behaviour around the world – whether in...

Advanced Persistent Threat Compromise of Government Agencies, Critical Infrastructure, and Private Sector Organizations

Summary Updated April 15, 2021: The U.S. Government attributes this activity to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR. Additional information may be found in astatement from the White House. For more information on SolarWinds-related activity, go to...

CISA and CNMF Analysis of SolarWinds-related Malware

CISA and the Department of Defense DoD Cyber National Mission Force CNMF have analyzed additional SolarWinds-related malware variants—referred to as SUNSHUTTLE and SOLARFLARE. One of the analyzed files was identified as a China Chopper webshell server-side component that was observed on a network...

NSA-CISA-FBI Joint Advisory on Russian SVR Targeting U.S. and Allied Networks

CISA, the National Security Agency NSA, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA on Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR actors scanning for and exploiting vulnerabilities to compromise U.S. and allied networks, including national security a...

CVE-2021-27258

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute escalate privileges on affected installations of SolarWinds Orion Platform 2020.2. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the SaveUserSetting endpoint. The issue results from improper...

CVE-2021-27258

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute escalate privileges on affected installations of SolarWinds Orion Platform 2020.2. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the SaveUserSetting endpoint. The issue results from improper...

CVE-2021-27258

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute escalate privileges on affected installations of SolarWinds Orion Platform 2020.2. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the SaveUserSetting endpoint. The issue results from improper...

Design/Logic Flaw

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute escalate privileges on affected installations of SolarWinds Orion Platform 2020.2. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the SaveUserSetting endpoint. The issue results from improper...

CVE-2021-27258

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute escalate privileges on affected installations of SolarWinds Orion Platform 2020.2. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the SaveUserSetting endpoint. The issue results from improper...

CVE-2021-27258

SolarWinds Orion Platform 2020.2 is affected by CVE-2021-27258 through an improper access control in the SaveUserSetting endpoint, enabling unauthenticated privilege escalation from Guest to Administrator. This is a network-authless issue, with multiple sources (ZDI advisory ZDI-21-192, Red Hat a...

CVE-2021-27258: Improper Access Control

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute escalate privileges on affected installations of SolarWinds Orion Platform 2020.2. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the SaveUserSetting endpoint. The issue results from improper...

PT-2021-17362

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: SolarWinds Orion Platform version 2020.2 Description: This issue allows remote attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations. Authentication is not required to exploit this issue. The specific flaw exists within the...

Solarwinds Orion Platform 安全漏洞

Solarwinds Orion Platform is a network fault and network performance management platform from Solarwinds, Inc. The platform provides real-time monitoring and analysis of network devices and supports a customizable web interface, multiple user opinions, and a mapped view of the entire network. An...

COVID-Related Threats, PowerShell Attacks Lead Malware Surge

Surging numbers of COVID-themed attacks, PowerShell trojans, along with the SolarWinds compromise and the continued spread of Sunburst malware were major contributors to a massive spike in the number of observed attacks in the wild during the last half of 2020, which McAfee’s said averaged 588...

Detecting the "Next" SolarWinds-Style Cyber Attack

The SolarWinds attack, which succeeded by utilizing the sunburst malware, shocked the cyber-security industry. This attack achieved persistence and was able to evade internal systems long enough to gain access to the source code of the victim. Because of the far-reaching SolarWinds deployments, t...

What’s New in InsightIDR: Q1 2021 in Review

Back at the start of the year, we reflected on some of our 2020 InsightIDR product investments and took a look at what was ahead in 2021 see the blog here. As the first quarter of the year comes to a close, we wanted to offer a closer look at some of the recent updates and releases in InsightIDR,...