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Microsoft, Energy Department and Others Named as Victims of SolarWinds Attack
2020-12-18 12:46

More high-profile organizations are named as victims of the cyber-espionage campaign that involved an attack on Texas-based IT management and monitoring company SolarWinds.

Politico reported on Thursday that the U.S. Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration were also targeted in the attack.

Cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks said that it too detected an attempt to download Cobalt Strike to one of its SolarWinds servers, but the company claimed that its security systems blocked the attack.

FireEye, one of the victims of the SolarWinds hack, and which was the first to disclose the attack, reported earlier this week that it identified and activated a killswitch for the SUNBURST malware.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned on Thursday that the SolarWinds supply chain attack was likely not the only initial access vector used by the attackers, but it has not shared additional information.


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VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
Microsoft 706 781 4550 4600 3628 13559
Solarwinds 56 33 102 81 51 267