CodeMonkey: Is this how the US TREASURY got hacked? The timing matches – (Additonal dig on SolarWinds Orion)…
UPDATE 1:
CEO of Solar Winds has turned over his passport to federal law enforcement officials.
Source Sean Hannity show on Sirius 125
— Solar Winds HQ Janitor Cousin Pookie (@GeorgiaPatriot6) December 14, 2020
UPDATE 2:
2/ and has reportedly surrendered his passport to US officials. Indicates they may have been aware of the breach long before it was disclosed. To put it mildly, this is an important one to watch.
H/T to @TheSharpEdge1 for the link.
— Murray 🇺🇸 (@Rothbard1776) December 14, 2020
Is this how the US TREASURY got hacked?
The timing matches.. https://t.co/MSgJ7yxoFY— Ron (@CodeMonkeyZ) December 14, 2020
Who is ‘SolarWinds Orion‘? It gets interesting…
Global Headquarters
Austin, Texas
Number of Employees
3,200+ worldwide
Customers Worldwide
320,000+ in 190 countries, including 499 of the Fortune 500®
22,000+ MSPs serving over 450,000 organizations
— Jim Nator (@NatorJim) December 14, 2020
From the tweet above (just in case you don’t want to open that link):
Threat Research
Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain to Compromise Multiple Global Victims With SUNBURST Backdoor
- We have discovered a global intrusion campaign. We are tracking the actors behind this campaign as UNC2452.
- FireEye discovered a supply chain attack trojanizing SolarWinds Orion business software updates in order to distribute malware we call SUNBURST.
- The attacker’s post compromise activity leverages multiple techniques to evade detection and obscure their activity, but these efforts also offer some opportunities for detection.
- The campaign is widespread, affecting public and private organizations around the world.
- FireEye is releasing signatures to detect this threat actor and supply chain attack in the wild. These are found on our public GitHub page. FireEye products and services can help customers detect and block this attack.
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