We do not have enough “publicly known” information to know how the compromise happened in the attack on SolarWinds. But we can see how SolarWinds software was leveraged to compromise the “root of trust” or what is called by Volexity the “akey” on a fully compromised infrastr...
Let’s take a look at SolarWinds Orion hack is VMware vSphere vulnerable to see what we know about the hack and specific to your vSphere virtualization environment, what steps might you take, especially if you have had the vulnerable version of SolarWinds Orion in your environment. What is S...
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. ...
Cybercriminals hacked into Texas-based SolarWinds systems and added malicious code into the company’s software Orion — a software system widely used by companies to manage IT resources. Unknowingly, SolarWinds sent out Orion software updates to its customers that included malicious code. When custo...
SolarWinds Hack:Thisfamous cyber espionage campaigninjected malicious code into SolarWinds Orion IT monitoring and management software. The exploit is noted for being a successfusupply chain attack. OPM Data Breach:The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breachexposed the sensitive personal data ...
With the tidal wave of supply chain attacks in the last few years (think SolarWinds and NotPetya), companies need to be more wary than ever about who they trust to make their software. The stakes are high. If you’re like most organizations, you can’t produce all of your software in...
Shaw:Our history goes way back. We started with the oldGFI LanGuardfor Macs product, which was aremote monitoring and management (RMM)that tied toVIPRE.SolarWindsacquired that product and we got our first taste of the Bitdefender engine. We loved what Bitdefender did. WhenKaseyawas courting us...
“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...
Neither SolarWinds nor U.S. cybersecurity authorities have publicly identified which organizations were breached. Just because a company or agency uses SolarWinds as a vendor doesn't necessarily mean they were vulnerable to the hacking. The malware that opened remote-access backdoors was injected int...
Major software vulnerabilities, such as the SolarWinds hack and the Heartbleed bug, are nothing new—but this one is very different. The XZ Utils hack attempt took advantage of the way open-source software development often works. Like many open-source projects, XZ Utils is a crucial and wide...