SUNBURST
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 ...
How the SolarWinds Hack (almost) went Undetected
My lightning talk from the SEC-T 0x0D conference has now been published on YouTube. This 13 minute talk covers tactics and techniques that the SolarWinds hackers used in order to avoid being ...
Smart PCAP and threat detection in the cloud
I am thrilled to publicly launch Corelight software version 22, which introduces a transformative new security product, Smart PCAP, and also enables threat detection in the cloud by extending Corelight’s Open NDR ...
Detecting CVE-2021-31166 – HTTP vulnerability
By Ben Reardon, Corelight Security Researcher In this blog we aim to provide a little insight into part of the lifecycle of Corelight Lab’s response to a critical HTTP vulnerability. We’ve open-sourced ...
What the Cyber EO means for federal agencies
By Jean Schaffer, Federal CTO, Corelight For those of us who have spent our careers working in cybersecurity, President Biden’s recent “Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” (EO) held no surprises ...
Extending NDR visibility in AWS IaaS
By Vijit Nair, Sr. Director, Product Management, Corelight Comprehensive visibility is challenging in a cloud environment. While these environments are rich sources of telemetry and logs, it is challenging for security teams ...
SolarWinds Hack: ‘All is Well,’ Microsoft Shrugs
Microsoft would like you to know that it’s finished investigating the SolarWinds breach, and everything’s just fine. Yeah, right ...
Targeting Process for the SolarWinds Backdoor
The SolarWinds Orion backdoor, known as SUNBURST or Solorigate, has been analyzed by numerous experts from Microsoft, FireEye and several anti-virus vendors. However, we have noticed that many of the published reports ...
Twenty-three SUNBURST Targets Identified
Remember when Igor Kuznetsov and Costin Raiu announced that two of the victims in FireEye's SUNBURST IOC list were ***net.***.com and central.***.gov on Kaspersky's Securelist blog in December? Reuters later reported that ...
Robust Indicators of Compromise for SUNBURST
There has been a great deal of confusion regarding what network based Indicators of Compromise (IOC) SolarWinds Orion customers can use to self assess whether or not they have been targeted after ...
