Here you will find all the articles with the tag: SolarWinds.
Microsoft announced that the group behind the infamous SolarWinds hack identified last year is now targeting think tanks, NGOs, government agencies, and consultants. In a blog post, the software giant said that it observed cyber attacks by the threat actor Nobelium, aimed at the aforementioned targ... Read more
3 years ago
Codecov, a company offering software auditing services, has fallen victim to a hack. The attacker appears to have been able to modify the company's software. The American government has launched an investigation. In an announcement about the hack, Codecov says that on April 1, 2021, the company ... Read more
3 years ago
The attack compromised high placed officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to the Associated Press. The AP reported this week that the widely reported SolarWinds hack actually compromised the emails of top U.S. DHS officials. The news service reports that suspected Russi... Read more
3 years ago
Microsoft has made the CodeQL queries from the SolarWinds attack open source. Developers can use the queries to check whether their software has been affected by an attack like the one that hit SolarWinds. In a blog post on its website, Microsoft describes how CodeQL works. The software is inten... Read more
3 years ago
Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, has described the hack on SolarWinds software as the largest and most sophisticated attack ever. He believes that a huge group of attackers is behind it. Smith told this during an interview with CBSNews, SiliconANGLE writes. Microsoft has hired 500 people to i... Read more
3 years ago
Agency confirms that 30% of the hack victims did not even use SolarWinds software. Investigators have revealed the recent cyber attack that penetrated government agencies and blue-chip businesses may be far greater than first realized. Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes first reported last week ... Read more
3 years ago
As of Wednesday, 20 January 2021, Joe Biden is the new President of the United States. As Biden said in his inauguration speech, he has many problems to tackle. In this modern world, many of those problems are IT-related. What are the challenges facing Biden? The main issue facing Biden is the t... Read more
3 years ago
Malicious actors have managed to break into the network of Malwarebytes. According to the security company, only a "limited subset of corporate e-mails" has been captured. Malwarebytes writes about the hack in a blog post. The company claims the same people are behind the hack as the ones who we... Read more
3 years ago
Symantec researchers have found additional malware used by the attackers behind the SolarWinds hack. The malware helped the attackers to extend their access to an infected network. The researchers have named the new malware Raindrop. It is very similar to the existing Teardrop malware that the a... Read more
3 years ago
Mimecast, a company dedicated to the management and security of Microsoft 365 products, has announced that one of its security certificates has been the target of a cyber attack. The company said in a blog post that about 10 percent of its customers were using the compromised certificate. Less t... Read more
3 years ago
