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SUSPECTED RUSSIA SOLARWINDS HACK EXPOSED AFTER FIREEYE CYBERSECURITY FIRM FOUND
'BACKDOOR'

By Jason Murdock On 12/15/20 at 4:47 AM EST
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A widespread hack of software giant SolarWinds was found by cybersecurity firm
FireEye as it investigated how its own systems were infiltrated in the same
campaign—which is suspected of being the work of Russia.

Officials from California-based FireEye's incident response division, known as
Mandiant, confirmed on Monday that its teams were first to raise the alarm to
SolarWinds and U.S. law enforcement after discovering the far-reaching security
compromise.

"We looked through 50,000 lines of source code, which we were able to determine
there was a backdoor within SolarWinds," Charles Carmakal, senior vice president
and chief technical officer at Mandiant, told Bloomberg.

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FireEye confirmed on December 8 that its systems had been breached by "a nation
with top-tier offensive capabilities." It said evidence suggested
state-sponsored culprits had accessed its offensive hacking tools used to test
its customers' security.

The SolarWinds attack seemingly went undetected for months as hackers were able
to sneak into U.S. government agencies, putting sensitive information at risk of
theft.

The National Security Agency (NSA) was apparently not aware until alerted by
FireEye, The New York Times reported. The agency was listed as a SolarWinds
customer.



"If this actor didn't hit FireEye, there is a chance that this campaign could
have gone on for much, much longer. One silver lining is that we learned so much
about how this threat actor works and shared it with our [partners]," Carmakal
said.

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The fallout from the cyber-intrusion grew late on Monday as it was acknowledged
that a slew of powerful agencies had possibly been hit, including the Department
of Homeland Security (DHS), the State Department, Commerce, Treasury and the
Pentagon.

Multiple sources said to be familiar with the investigation told Reuters on
Monday that Russia was believed to be responsible for the cyberattack. Bloomberg
reported the FBI was probing if a Russian hacking unit called APT29, or Cozy
bear, was involved in the FireEye attack, but the cybersecurity company has not
confirmed any attribution.



Investigations will continue to understand the full extent of the hack, which
was able to abuse an alleged vulnerability in a SolarWinds monitoring platform
called "Orion." It has been suspected that the motivation behind the compromise
was cyber-espionage.

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According to a now-removed customer page on its website, SolarWinds software was
used by more than 425 firms on the Fortune 500, all branches of the U.S.
military, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), all of the
top-10 American telecom companies, the Department of Justice, the Office of the
President, NASA, NOAA, the Postal Service and "hundreds of universities" and
colleges globally.



But SolarWinds said in an advisory the incident appeared to be an "extremely
targeted and manually executed attack, as opposed to a broad, system-wide
attack." It is not known which of the Texas-based software firm's clients were
breached.

The firm's client base tops 300,000. Approximately 18,000 are believed to have
been potentially compromised in the nation-state cyberattack, SolarWinds said.

The attack was a "supply chain attack" that pushed booby-trapped software
updates to SolarWinds customers in order to distribute a type of malware called
Sunburst, FireEye said in a blog post on Monday, stressing that the incident is
ongoing.

"The victims have included government, consulting, technology, telecom and
extractive entities in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. We
anticipate there are additional victims in other countries," the company added,
warning those responsible are highly-skilled and their malware could have been
used for "data theft."



In a statement this week, a SolarWinds spokesperson said compromised Orion
updates are believed to have been released between March and June this year.

FireEye did not release names of suspected victims. Russia's U.S. embassy
rejected the allegations of state hacking in a statement posted to its Facebook
account on Sunday, saying the claims were "unfounded" and that it does not
engage in cyberattacks.


Stock image showing a hacker stealing information. A widespread hack of software
giant SolarWinds was first flagged by cybersecurity firm FireEye as it was
investigating how its own systems were infiltrated during the incident,
officials have said. iStock
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