SolarWinds

Malware & Threats

Issued by: SecurityWeek

The charges stem from alleged fraud and internal control failures related to known cybersecurity weaknesses that took place between the company’s October 2018 initial public offering (IPO) and its December 2020 revelation of a sophisticated cyberattack dubbed “SUNBURST.” The software supply chain cyberattack involved Russia-linked threat actors breaching SolarWinds systems in 2019, or possibly even…

Software Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

Scribe Security released Scribe Integrity, a code integrity validator that authenticates open-source and proprietary source code, and an integral building block of its platform solving the software supply chain security challenge. Scribe Integrity provides developers with an added layer of visibility, allowing developers peace of mind that the code they are using is safe. Scribe…

Software Security

Issued by: CIO Security

It’s more difficult than ever to protect our infrastructure, government, and businesses from becoming victims of well-funded, skilled adversaries. From the Log4j vulnerability to the SolarWinds hack to the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack, organizations are more vulnerable to cyberattacks than ever before. In fact, 87% of enterprises across 11 countries have fallen victim to cyberattacks in…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

In the SolarWinds incident, up to 18,000 companies could have received the malware injected into the SolarWinds software. Not all could have been affected. Many of these ‘victims’ did not install the infected version, and many others did so on servers with no internet connectivity. Of those companies that did receive the Nobelium Sunburst malware,…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Help Net Security

Cyentia Institute and RiskRecon released a research that quantifies how a multi-party data breach impacts many organizations in today’s interconnected digital world. The study is based on an analysis of 897 multi-party breaches involving three or more interrelated companies. The impact of multi-party data breach events 897 multi-party data breach incidents, also referred to as…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

SolarWinds had previously traced the origins of the hack to the fall of 2019 but now believes that hackers were doing “very early recon activities” as far back as the prior January, according to Sudhakar Ramakrishna, the company’s president and CEO. “The tradecraft that the attackers used was extremely well done and extremely sophisticated, where…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

In response to recent cybersecurity incidents such as SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange, and the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, President Biden on May 12, 2021 signed an Executive Order (EO) to improve the nation’s cybersecurity and protect federal government networks. For close observers, this seems to be like Groundhog Day, as past incoming administrations have issued similar…