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After the malicious Orion upgrades were installed on the systems of thousands of SolarWinds customers, Microsoft President Brad Smith said that the suspected Russian hacking group were able to "Pick and choose" targets of interest already compromised organizations. Based on information gathered while investigating the still ongoing hacking campaign, Microsoft has notified the over 40 organizations that were "Targeted more precisely and compromised through additional and sophisticated measures."
America's nuclear weapons agency was hacked by the suspected Russian spies who backdoored SolarWinds' IT monitoring software and compromised several US government bodies, and Microsoft was caught up in the same cyber-storm, too, it was reported Thursday. The Windows giant uses SolarWinds' network management suite Orion, downloads of which were secretly trojanized earlier this year so that when installed within certain targets - such as the US government departments of State, Treasury, Homeland Security, and Commerce - the malicious code's masterminds could slip into their victims' networks, execute commands, read emails, steal data, and so on.
Nation-state hackers have breached the networks of the National Nuclear Security Administration and the US Department of Energy. NNSA is a semi-autonomous government agency responsible for maintaining and securing the US nuclear weapons stockpile.
Nation-state hackers have breached the networks of the National Nuclear Security Administration and the US Department of Energy. NNSA is a semi-autonomous government agency responsible for maintaining and securing the US nuclear weapons stockpile.
An advanced hacking group believed to be working for the Russian government has compromised the internal network of a think tank in the U.S. three times. Incident responders from cybersecurity company Volexity investigating the attacks between late 2019 and July 2020 named the threat actor Dark Halo, a versatile adversary capable to quickly switch to different tactics and techniques to carry out long-term, stealthy operations.
An advanced hacking group believed to be working for the Russian government has compromised the internal network of a think tank in the U.S. three times. Incident responders from cybersecurity company Volexity investigating the attacks between late 2019 and July 2020 named the threat actor Dark Halo, a versatile adversary capable to quickly switch to different tactics and techniques to carry out long-term, stealthy operations.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said that the APT group behind the recent compromise campaign targeting US government agencies used more than one initial access vector. "CISA has evidence of additional initial access vectors, other than the SolarWinds Orion platform; however, these are still being investigated. CISA will update this Alert as new information becomes available," the agency said.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said that the APT group behind the recent compromise campaign targeting US government agencies used more than one initial access vector. "CISA has evidence of additional initial access vectors, other than the SolarWinds Orion platform; however, these are still being investigated. CISA will update this Alert as new information becomes available," the agency said.
Police forces were found by IPCO to be treating applications to use spying powers as a tickbox exercise, perhaps unsurprisingly given that these are self-authorisations rubberstamped by police managers themselves. "To provide oversight that satisfies this judgment, IPCO reviewed the use of bulk data at GCHQ and has now incorporated the sharing of bulk data with foreign partners into its regular oversight and inspection arrangements," said IPCO in a statement.