because anyone can potentially be the victim of a cyberattack, particularly if those behind it have vast resources, such as the state-backed operation that breached SolarWinds.
downloaded updates with malicious code injected into them. This code granted hackers unauthorized backdoor access to systems and private networks of nearly 100 entities. SolarWinds did not discover the breach until December 2020. An international...
This method was key in maintaining persistence on accounts affected by the attack on SolarWinds application update. The attacker was able to generate signed certificates from an admin’s compromised endpoint. After generating the certificate, the attacker added it to the application...
"Let's say you get your security logs from a service within four hours of an event of interest. But something changes at the cloud service provider, and now, you're not getting the logs until 12 hours later," Hartman theorized. "Or what if the event never shows up at all?" Threat ...
There are many ways to monitor your site for downtime. One popular option isPingdom by SolarWinds, a website monitoring service that you can use to create uptime monitoring checks: You can configure this test to run on a schedule ranging from once per hour to once every minute. Then Ping...
3. SolarWinds SolarWinds’s password breach incident was the dumbest one in February 2021. According to the company, foreign hackers were behind the hacking activity. The company also blamed an intern for creating a weak password of “solarwinds123,” exposed online. ...
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“The ransomware attacks that impacted Colonial Pipeline, SolarWinds, and Twitch in 2021 have put cybersecurity at the forefront of global business operations – both for consumers and businesses. The immediate impact of a data breach is devastating but it’s only the tip...
Also in 2020, a group of hackers hid malware inside a legitimate software update from SolarWinds, maker of a popular IT infrastructure management platform. The hackerssuccessfully breachedMicrosoft, Intel and Cisco, in addition to various US government agencies. Then, they used steganography to disgu...
A few companies who paid the ransom got their data back, but research shows that most did not. #3.SolarWinds Sunburst Backdoor Attack On December 14, 2020, malicious backdoors known as Sunburst and Supernova were discovered in SolarWinds. SolarWinds is a major information technology company ba...