SolarWinds

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2020
Microsoft partnered with security firms to sinkhole the C2 used in SolarWinds hack

Microsoft and its partners have seized the primary domain used in the SolarWinds attack to identify the victims through sinkholing. Microsoft partnered with other cybersecurity firms to seize the primary domain used in the SolarWinds attack (avsvmcloud[.]com) in an attempt to identify all victims and prevent other systems from being served malicious software. The domain […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2020
SolarWinds confirmes 18,000 customers may have been impacted

18,000 SolarWinds customers may have been impacted by the attack against its supply chain, the company said in a SEC filing. SolarWinds revealed that 18,000 customers might have been impacted by the cyber attack against its supply chain. The alarming data emerged in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday. “On December […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2020
US Agencies and FireEye were hacked with a supply chain attack on SolarWinds Software

Hackers broke into the networks of federal agencies and FireEye by compromising SolarWinds’ Orion Network Management Products. The cyber espionage group has tampered with updates released by IT company SolarWinds, which provides its products to government agencies, military, and intelligence offices, two people familiar with the matter told the Reuters agency.  Nation-state actors, allegedly Russia-linked […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 15, 2018
Spectre/Meltdown patches had a significant impact on SolarWinds’s AWS infrastructure

Analysis conducted by SolarWinds on the impact on the performance of the Spectre/Meltdown patches on its own Amazon Web Services infrastructure revealed serious performance degradation. SolarWinds, the vendor of IT Management Software & Monitoring Tools, has analyzed the impact on the performance of Meltdown and Spectre security patches on its own Amazon Web Services infrastructure. The […]