TheSolarWinds breach, likely carried out by agroup affiliated with Russia's FSB security service, compromised the software development supply chain used by SolarWinds to update 18,000 users of its Orion network management product. The hack, which allegedly began in early 2020, was discovered only...
“What if theSolarWinds serverswere only allowed to talk to the known good rather than being disallowed to connect to the known bad?” he postulated. “Could theTwitter hackhave been avoided if the employees had not been trusted to change the email addresses of accounts? By being prepared fo...
the Russia-backed hackers simply guessed the password "solarwinds123," which proved to be the password to the company's update server. This allowed the attackers to hide a virus in SolarWinds' Orion software update, which was later shipped...
One of the most publicized hacks was the SolarWinds supply chain attack. An investigation was undertaken todetermine the attack vectors, but the breach may have been the result of compromised credentials or possible access through the development environment for SolarWinds' Orion IT management software...
The colossal scale of the ongoing offensive against Microsoft's email servers also eclipses theSolarWinds hacking spreethat came to light last December, which is said to have targeted as many as 18,000 customers of the IT management tools provider. But as it was with the SolarWinds hack, th...
The extent of such a data breach can be staggering. For example, in 2020, theSolarWinds supply chainfell victim to one of the largest hacks in recent history. It affected hundreds of government and private entities across the world. Threat actors used a backdoor loader called Raindrop to de...
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 ...
including theColonial PipelineandSolarWindshacks. In an attempt to address the growing threat, the White House released its cybersecurity executive order andZero Trust Strategywith the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), mandating US federal agencies to use only multi-factor authentication (MFA) ...
The most famous example of this is the2020 SolarWinds attack, when hackers gained access to the SolarWinds network and inserted malicious code into a seemingly innocuous software update. That update was then installed by SolarWinds customers, which included multinational companies and government agencie...
SolarWinds:The company said, “We have been advised that this incident was likely the result of a highly sophisticated, targeted, and manual supply chain attack by an outside nation state, but we have not independently verified the identity of the attacker.” ...