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Last night the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a rare Emergency Directive 21-01, in response to a KNOWN COMPROMISE involving SolarWinds Orion products.
This was only the fifth Emergency Directive issued by CISA under the authorities granted by Congress in the Cybersecurity Act of 2015.
CISA reported a breach of the SolarWinds Orion products.
This Emergency Directive called on all federal civilian agencies to review their networks for indicators of compromise and disconnect or power down SolarWinds Orion products immediately.
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Major hack hits energy companies, U.S. agencies Source: By Blake Sobczak, E&E News reporter • Posted: Tuesday, December 15, 2020
A massive hack of IT service provider SolarWinds led to cybersecurity compromises at multiple federal agencies. At least two of the Energy Department’s national labs use SolarWinds software and may have been affected by the hack, among thousands of other potential victims. Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News (illustration); Francis Chung/E&E News (photo); Freepik (binary code)
Top cybersecurity officials are scrambling to assess the fallout from a far-reaching hack of U.S. federal agencies and global companies, with electric power utilities, at least two Energy Department national labs and thousands of other organizations potentially breached.
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Originally published on December 21, 2020 6:35 pm
A massive computer breach allowed hackers to spend months exploring numerous U.S. government networks and private companies systems around the world. Industry experts say a country mounted the complex hack and government officials say Russia is responsible.
The hackers attached their malware to a software update from SolarWinds, a company based in Austin, Texas. Many federal agencies and thousands of companies worldwide use SolarWinds Orion software to monitor their computer networks.
SolarWinds says that nearly 18,000 of its customers in the government and the private sector received the tainted software update from March to June of this year.
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