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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Using Aviary to Analyze Post-Compromise Threat Activity in M365 Environments

Aviary is a new dashboard that CISA and partners developed to help visualize and analyze outputs from its Sparrow detection tool released in December 2020. Sparrow helps network defenders detect possible compromised accounts and applications in Azure/Microsoft O365 environments. CISA created...

Crossing the Line: When Cyberattacks Become Acts of War

The Cold War concept isn’t outdated. In the decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the battleground has simply shifted from conflicts between ideological proxy governments to cyberspace. And the opponents have grown from a few primary nations into a broad range of sovereign threat actors. Th...

SolarWinds Attackers Accessed DHS Emails, Report

The SolarWinds cyberattackers compromised the head of the Department of Homeland Security DHS under former president Trump and other top-ranking members of the department’s cybersecurity staff, according to a report. In the campaign, adversaries were able to use SolarWinds’ Orion network manageme...

Solarwinds Orion Virtual Infrastructure Monitor 代码问题漏洞

Solarwinds Orion Virtual Infrastructure Monitor is an application from Solarwinds, Inc. It is used to enable virtual monitoring from the Orion Web Console. A code issue vulnerability exists in SolarWinds Orion Virtual Infrastructure Monitor, which can be exploited by an attacker to escalate...

SolarWinds Orion Virtual Infrastructure Monitor OneTimeJobSchedulerEventsService Deserialization of Untrusted Data Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of SolarWinds Orion Virtual Infrastructure Monitor. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw...

CVE-2021-27240

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of SolarWinds Patch Manager 2020.2.1. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within th...