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SolarWinds Attack Underscores New Dimension in Cyber-Espionage Tactics Meanwhile, Malwarebytes is the latest victim, Symantec discovers a fourth piece of malware used in the massive attack campaign, and FireEye Mandiant releases a free tool to help spot signs of the attack. The complex cyberattack campaign against major US government agencies and corporations including Microsoft and FireEye has driven home the reality of how attackers are setting their sights on targets cloud-based services such as Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory to access user credentials and ultimately the organizations most valuable and timely information. Today Malwarebytes revealed that it, too, was compromised by the same attackers who infected SolarWinds Orion network management software to reach many of the targets in the campaign but via a different attack vector that gained privileged access to 365 and Azure. After an extensive investigation, we determined the attacker only ....
More SolarWinds Attack Details Emerge A third piece of malware is uncovered, but there are still plenty of unknowns about the epic attacks purportedly out of Russia. As yet another piece of malware has been uncovered in the attack on SolarWinds network management system software, there still remain several missing elements needed to draw a complete picture of the massive cyberattacks against major US government agencies and corporations, including security vendor and incident response expert FireEye. SolarWinds and CrowdStrike this week detailed a third malware tool dubbed Sunspot that was found in the attack on the software vendor. Sunspot is a custom program that inserted the so-called Sunburst backdoor into the software build environment of SolarWinds Orion network management product. CrowdStrike, which analyzed Sunspot on behalf of SolarWinds, says the tool was carefully planted somehow by the attackers and kept hidden from SolarWinds developers with sophistic ....
The SolarWinds’ Orion breach, which is believed to have affected 18,000 organizations, led to follow-on attacks on government agencies and others. Although the agencies did not name the hacking group responsible, The Washington Post and other news media outlets have reported that the threat actor is likely a Russian APT known as APT29 or Cozy Bear. Russia has denied playing any role the attack (see: Dormancy Issue Kaspersky researchers say they found three overlaps between Sunburst and Kazuar. That includes the sleeping algorithm that calculates the time between when the backdoors are planted within a network and when they connect to the attackers command-and-control server. ....
Security researchers have found links between the attackers and Turla, a sophisticated team suspected of operating out of Moscow’s FSB intelligence agency. ....