Security News > 2021 > March > Cybersecurity Webinar — SolarWinds Sunburst: The Big Picture

As the so-called layers of the onion are peeled back, additional information regarding how the vulnerability was exploited, who was behind the attack, who is to blame for the attack, and the long-term ramifications of this type of supply chain vulnerabilities continue to be actively discussed.

Cybersecurity company Cynet is taking a needed step back to provide a full picture of the SolarWinds attack from start to finish in an upcoming webinar, "Lessons Learned from the SolarWinds SUNBURST Attack."

Information regarding many aspects of the attack has been coming out in pieces, but we haven't yet seen this type of comprehensive overview of the technical steps behind the full attack, as well as clear recommendations for protecting against similar future attacks.

From their first stealthy access to the Solarwinds environment in September 2019, the hackers brilliantly staged and carried out an attack that ultimately led to the compromise of systems in over 40 government agencies, including the National Nuclear Security Administration, the US agency responsible for nuclear weapons.

The Cynet webinar unpacks the attack to explain the build process used by the attackers and then highlights the capabilities of the Sunburst, Teardrop, and Raindrop malware used in the attack.

With a full understanding of how the attack was carried out, we can then determine whether we're likely to see these types of supply chain attacks proliferate and whether nation-states are already targeting key suppliers.

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