Security News > 2020 > December > FireEye, Microsoft create kill switch for SolarWinds backdoor
Microsoft, FireEye, and GoDaddy have collaborated to create a kill switch for the SolarWinds Sunburst backdoor that forces the malware to terminate itself.
As part of a coordinated disclosure with Microsoft and SolarWinds, FireEye released a report on Sunday with an analysis of the supply chain attack and how the Sunburst backdoor operates.
Today, Brian Krebs was the first to reveal that FireEye, Microsoft, and Godaddy collaborated to create a kill switch for the Sunburst malware.
Com takeover to create a kill switch that unloads the Sunburst malware on infected machines.
"However, in the intrusions FireEye has seen, this actor moved quickly to establish additional persistent mechanisms to access to victim networks beyond the SUNBURST backdoor. This killswitch will not remove the actor from victim networks where they have established other backdoors. However, it will make it more difficult to for the actor to leverage the previously distributed versions of SUNBURST," FireEye warned about the kill switch.