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Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain to CompromiseMultiple Global Victims With SUNBURST Backdoor
SolarWinds.Orion.Core.BusinessLayer.dll is a SolarWinds digitally-signed component of the Orion software framework that contains a backdoor that communicates via HTTP to third party servers. We are tracking the trojanized version of this SolarWinds Orion plug-in as SUNBURST.
This is further proof that digitally signed software alone is insufficient to determine trustworthiness and that a comprehensive software supply chain risk assessment, that includes a malware scan, is needed to identify software supply chain risk. Energy Central hosted a Powersession on 8/12/2020 describing best practices for software supply chain risk assessments, based on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, V1.1. The session is available on demand at: https://energycentral.com/o/energy-central/demand-energy-central-powersession-series-cybersecurity-us-power-grid-software
Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain to CompromiseMultiple Global Victims With SUNBURST Backdoor
We have discovered a global intrusion campaign, and we are tracking the actors behind this campaign as UNC2452.
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