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Microsoft has confirmed that it, too, is among the companies who have downloaded the compromised SolarWinds Orion updates, but that they have isolated and removed them. "While investigations continue, Microsoft has identified and has been working this week to notify more than 40 customers that the attackers targeted more precisely and compromised through additional and sophisticated measures," Smith said.
Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed a new supply-chain attack targeting the Vietnam Government Certification Authority that compromised the agency's digital signature toolkit to install a backdoor on victim systems. Uncovered by Slovak internet security company ESET early this month, the "SignSight" attack involved modifying software installers hosted on the CA's website to insert a spyware tool called PhantomNet or Smanager.
The U.S. government on Thursday added a new wrinkle to the global emergency response to the SolarWinds software supply chain attack, warning there are "Additional initial access vectors" that have not yet been documented. As the incident response and threat hunting world focuses on the SolarWinds Orion products as the initial entry point for the attacks, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added a note to its advisory to warn of the new information.
New malicious RubyGems packages have been discovered that are being used in a supply chain attack to steal cryptocurrency from unsuspecting users. As anyone can upload a Gem to the RubyGems repository, it allows threat actors to upload malicious packages to the repository in the hopes that another developer will integrate it into their program.
Network monitoring services provider SolarWinds officially released a second hotfix to address a critical vulnerability in its Orion platform that was exploited to insert malware and breach public and private entities in a wide-ranging espionage campaign. In a new update posted to its advisory page, the company urged its customers to update Orion Platform to version 2020.2.1 HF 2 immediately to secure their environments.
Network monitoring services provider SolarWinds officially released a second hotfix to address a critical vulnerability in its Orion platform that was exploited to insert malware and breach public and private entities in a wide-ranging espionage campaign. In a new update posted to its advisory page, the company urged its customers to update Orion Platform to version 2020.2.1 HF 2 immediately to secure their environments.
Incident response teams are scrambling as after details emerged late Sunday of a sophisticated espionage campaign leveraging a software supply chain attack that allowed hackers to compromise numerous public and private organizations around the world. Among victims are multiple US government agencies, including the Treasury and Commerce departments, and cybersecurity giant FireEye, which stunned the industry last week when it revealed that attackers gained access to its Red Team tools.
Trojanized versions of SolarWinds' Orion IT monitoring and management software have been used in a supply chain attack leading to the breach of government and high-profile companies after attackers deployed a backdoor dubbed SUNBURST or Solorigate. SolarWinds' customer listing [1, 2] includes over 425 of the US Fortune 500, all top ten US telecom companies, hundreds of universities and colleges, all five branches of the US Military, the US Pentagon, the State Department, NASA, NSA, Postal Service, NOAA, Department of Justice, and the Office of the President of the United States.
Kevin Thompson, SolarWinds president and CEO, said his company is "Aware of a potential vulnerability" that may have been in "Updates which were released between March and June 2020 to our Orion monitoring products." The vandalized SolarWinds code is said to have been exploited by miscreants to sneak into networks within the US government bodies, among them the Treasury and the Department of Commerce's telecoms agency NTIA, where Orion is used.
The emails impersonate a member company of the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain to harvest account credentials, says IBM Security X-Force. A calculated cybercriminal operation is targeting companies in the coronavirus vaccine supply chain with phishing emails that appear to be designed to steal sensitive user credentials, IBM Security X-Force said in a report released Thursday.