Orion
SEC Sends Wells Notice to SolarWinds Executives
On June 23, 2023, SolarWinds revealed via an SEC Form 8-K filing that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) notified the company that “certain current and former executive officers and employees ...
SolarWinds: What Hit Us Could Hit Others
New research into the malware that set the stage for the megabreach at IT vendor SolarWinds shows the perpetrators spent months inside the company's software development labs honing their attack before inserting ...
Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach
The ongoing breach affecting thousands of organizations that relied on backdoored products by network software firm SolarWinds may have jeopardized the privacy of countless sealed court documents on file with the U.S ...
Solar Winds Blow Hard
Unbelievable! But true. The enormous hack, purportedly by Russia (per Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and others), of major U.S. government agencies and the U.S.’s biggest corporations—apparently some 18,000 organizations according to ...
SolarWinds/SUNBURST Backdoor, Third-Party and Supply Chain Security
In episode 152 for December 21st 2020: A discussion about the SolarWinds Orion backdoor, third-party security, and the threat of supply chain attacks with co-host Kevin Johnson. ** Links mentioned on the ...
Malicious Domain in SolarWinds Hack Turned into ‘Killswitch’
A key malicious domain name used to control potentially thousands of computer systems compromised via the months-long breach at network monitoring software vendor SolarWinds was commandeered by security experts and used as ...
Finding SUNBURST Backdoor with Zeek Logs & Corelight
John Gamble, Director of Product Marketing, Corelight FireEye’s threat research team has discovered a troubling new supply chain attack targeting SolarWind’s Orion IT monitoring and management platform. The attack trojanizes Orion software ...
U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
Communications at the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments were reportedly compromised by a supply chain attack on SolarWinds, a security vendor that helps the federal government and a range of Fortune 500 ...