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HOMELAND WARNS OF MAJOR BREACH IN SOFTWARE USED BY US GOVERNMENT


A GROUP OF “NATION-STATE” HACKERS COMPROMISED SOLARWINDS’ ORION SOFTWARE—USED BY
MANY FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.


By Liam Frost
Dec 14, 2020Dec 14, 2020
2 min read

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IN BRIEF

 * A group of hackers compromised IT management tool Orion, according to the US
   Department of Homeland Security.
 * The software is reportedly used by government and enterprise entities in
   North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
 * The hackers used the so-called "supply chain attack" to inject their malware
   into legitimate software updates.

A group of hackers reportedly compromised certain software tools used by many
Fortune 500 companies and a number of federal agencies, according to the US
Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) and cybersecurity firm FireEye’s
statements published yesterday.

The software in question is IT monitoring and management tool Orion developed by
SolarWinds. Per FireEye’s report, it is used by “government, consulting,
technology, telecom and extractive entities in North America, Europe, Asia and
the Middle East.”

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The firm explained that the hacking campaign is currently ongoing and “may have
begun as early as spring 2020”—when the attackers injected their malware into
SolarWinds’ software updates.

The group reportedly used the so-called “supply chain attack.” Via this method,
malicious actors can stealthily inject their trojans into legit software update
infrastructures.

FireEye also stated that it had become one of the victims of a “highly evasive
attacker” that used SolarWinds’ digital supply chain to “compromise multiple
global victims with SUNBURST backdoor.”


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wallet—into signing a different transaction that transferred funds to the
attacker’s own address. The hack has been described as “targeted personal attack
on Hugh” by Nexus Mutual via its Twitter account. Karp described the attack as a
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In its official statement, SolatWind said that it “has just been made aware”
that its systems “experienced a highly sophisticated, manual supply chain
attack.” The company also noted that the exploit was reportedly present in
several versions of its Orion software released between March and June.

“We have been advised this attack was likely conducted by an outside nation
state and intended to be a narrow, extremely targeted, and manually executed
attack, as opposed to a broad, system-wide attack,” SolarWinds added.


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Per Financial Times’ report, the company also revealed that it is currently
cooperating in an investigation alongside FireEye, the FBI, and other law
enforcement agencies.

The DHS published an emergency directive on Sunday, urging government agencies
to disable all IT infrastructures that involve SolarWinds’ Orion products—at
least versions 2019.4 through 2020.2.1 HF1—since they are “currently being
exploited by malicious actors” and pose “an unacceptable risk to Federal
Civilian Executive Branch.”

The agency added that all affected entities “should expect further
communications from CISA and await guidance” as well as block all traffic to
external hosts that have any versions of SolarWinds’ Orion software installed.

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