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Solarwinds Orion got hacked. It's basically a software that is used by 80% of all Fortune 500 companies, US Treasury all 5 military branches and many other places around the world.
From The Washington Post's Ellen Nakashima @nakashimae
Breaking: Russian hacking group APT29 behind broad espionage campaign that breached Treasury, Commerce, FireEye.
from investigative journalist Scott Stedman @ScottMStedman
Confirmation here that Cozy Bear is behind the hacks:
Cozy Bear is run by Russia’s SVR not the GRU like Fancy Bear.
This comes after Trump fired DHS cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs.
Russian government spies are behind a broad hacking campaign that has breached U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm
r/worldnews thread here - UPDATE this submission has been removed from r/worldnews.
UPDATE: Sources tell me that the victims--Treasury, Commerce, FireEye--were breached through an IT Management System called Solar Winds via @nakashimae
IT company SolarWinds says it may have been hit in 'highly sophisticated' hack
UPDATED: Russian government hackers are behind an online espionage campaign that has breached the Treasury and Commerce Departments, other U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm. The scale of this is "very, very bad," said one source. via @nakashimae
Top IT expert for a Fortune 500: "man.. this was very very veeeeerrryyyy carefully orchestrated." This source is worried the hack could be "catastrophic."
S/he continues: "by now, any organization who has not combed through their outbound internet traffic looking for "*.avsvmcloud.com" [the main part of the exploit to trick SolarWinds into thinking it was legit/safe site to make requests to] should fire their CISO team." via
From The Washington Post's Ellen Nakashima @nakashimae
Breaking: Russian hacking group APT29 behind broad espionage campaign that breached Treasury, Commerce, FireEye.
from investigative journalist Scott Stedman @ScottMStedman
Confirmation here that Cozy Bear is behind the hacks:
Cozy Bear is run by Russia’s SVR not the GRU like Fancy Bear.
This comes after Trump fired DHS cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs.
Russian government spies are behind a broad hacking campaign that has breached U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm
r/worldnews thread here - UPDATE this submission has been removed from r/worldnews.
UPDATE: Sources tell me that the victims--Treasury, Commerce, FireEye--were breached through an IT Management System called Solar Winds via @nakashimae
IT company SolarWinds says it may have been hit in 'highly sophisticated' hack
UPDATED: Russian government hackers are behind an online espionage campaign that has breached the Treasury and Commerce Departments, other U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm. The scale of this is "very, very bad," said one source. via @nakashimae
Top IT expert for a Fortune 500: "man.. this was very very veeeeerrryyyy carefully orchestrated." This source is worried the hack could be "catastrophic."
S/he continues: "by now, any organization who has not combed through their outbound internet traffic looking for "*.avsvmcloud.com" [the main part of the exploit to trick SolarWinds into thinking it was legit/safe site to make requests to] should fire their CISO team." via
