[211][212] Soon after, SolarWinds hired a new cybersecurity firm co-founded by Krebs. [78][91] If able to contact one of those servers, this would alert the attackers of a successful malware deployment and offer the attackers a back door that the attackers could choose to utilise if they wished to exploit the system further. [8] On December 13, 2020, CISA issued an emergency directive asking federal agencies to disable the SolarWinds software, to reduce the risk of additional intrusions, even though doing so would reduce those agencies' ability to monitor their computer networks. [1][35][36], The attack, which had gone undetected for months, was first publicly reported on December 13, 2020,[24][25] and was initially only known to have affected the U.S. Treasury Department and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. [55][56][57] Also at that time, the DHS, which manages CISA, lacked a Senate-confirmed Secretary, Deputy Secretary, General Counsel, Undersecretary for Intelligence and Analysis, and Undersecretary for Management; and Trump had recently forced out the Deputy Director of CISA. SolarWinds products with SunBurst backdoor [66][67], On December 7, 2020, a few days before trojaned SolarWinds software was publicly confirmed to have been used to attack other organizations, longstanding SolarWinds CEO Kevin Thompson retired. They also stated that because deterrence may not effectively discourage cyber-espionage attempts by threat actors, the U.S. should also focus on making cyber-espionage less successful through methods such as enhanced cyber-defenses, better information-sharing, and "defending forward" (reducing Russian and Chinese offensive cyber-capabilities). UP NEXT. [241] The UK and Irish cybersecurity agencies published alerts targeting SolarWinds customers. "[52] Esquire commentator Charles P. Pierce criticized the Trump administration for being "asleep at the switch" and termed Trump a "crooked, incompetent agent of chaos. [238][239], The attack prompted a debate on whether the hack should be treated as cyber-espionage, or as a cyberattack constituting an act of war. [68][69] That same day, two private equity firms with ties to SolarWinds's board sold substantial amounts of stock in SolarWinds. $286m in stock sales just before hack announced? [62] In November 2019, a security researcher had warned SolarWinds that their FTP server was not secure, warning that "any hacker could upload malicious [files]" that would then be distributed to SolarWinds customers. [3][63] Cybercriminals had been selling access to SolarWinds's infrastructure since at least as early as 2017. The infected versions were found to be 2019.4 through 2020.2.1 HF1, released between March 2020 and June 2020. [5][97][98] Having accessed data of interest, they encrypted and exfiltrated it. [74][24] Further investigation proved these concerns to be well-founded. [80][81] The first known modification, in October 2019, was merely a proof of concept. [43][21] A supply chain attack on Microsoft cloud services provided one way for the attackers to breach their victims, depending upon whether the victims had bought those services through a reseller. [78][79] In the build system, the attackers surreptitiously modified software updates provided by SolarWinds to users of its network monitoring software Orion. [208], SolarWinds unpublished its featured customer list after the hack,[209] although as of December 15, cybersecurity firm GreyNoise Intelligence said SolarWinds had not removed the infected software updates from its distribution server. In a statement, the Santa Clara, California-based c [120], On October 22, 2020, CISA and the FBI identified the Microsoft zerologon attacker as Berserk Bear, a state-sponsored group believed to be part of Russia's FSB. We're Being Hacked", "U.S. [219], The Senate Armed Services Committee's cybersecurity subcommittee was briefed by Defense Department officials. reply. [20] On December 7, 2020, the NSA published an advisory warning customers to apply the patches because the vulnerabilities were being actively exploited by Russian state-sponsored attackers. [68][70], Multiple attack vectors were used in the course of breaching the various victims of the incident.[71][72]. [207][153], GoDaddy handed ownership to Microsoft of a command-and-control domain used in the attack, allowing Microsoft to activate a killswitch in the Sunburst malware, and to discover which SolarWinds customers were infected. ][3] or using blackmail to recruit spies. Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) described the attack as tantamount to a declaration of war. [211][154], GoDaddy handed ownership to Microsoft of a command-and-control domain used in the attack, allowing Microsoft to activate a killswitch in the Sunburst malware, and to discover which SolarWinds customers were infected. If you do that long enough, you can get quite good at it; there have been mornings when I hit the “snooze” button 15 or more times in a row, pushing back my wake-up time by as much as 2 hours. Senator Richard J. Durbin described the cyberattack as tantamount to a declaration of war. [236] The UK and Irish cybersecurity agencies published alerts targeting SolarWinds customers. [47][48] U.S. [1] On December 22, 2020, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation asked electricity companies to report their level of exposure to Solarwinds software. [127][128][129], On January 5, 2021, CISA, the FBI, the NSA, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, all confirmed that they believe Russia was the most likely culprit.[131][132][133]. The SolarWinds Hack is Neither Accidental Nor Intended to Create Immediate Political Effects. [129], On December 8, 2020, before other organizations were known to have been breached, FireEye published countermeasures against the red team tools that had been stolen from FireEye. [114][237], On December 24, 2020, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security asked SolarWinds Orion users in Canada to check for system compromises. [8][9] Russian-sponsored hackers were suspected to be responsible. But this is a stealthy operation. [72][145] Former Homeland Security Advisor Thomas P. Bossert warned that it could take years to evict the attackers from US networks, leaving them able to continue to monitor, destroy or tamper with data in the meantime. [152][148], On December 22, 2020, after U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told reporters that he was "completely on top of this", the Senate Finance Committee was briefed by Microsoft that dozens of Treasury email accounts had been breached, and the attackers had accessed systems of the Treasury's Departmental Offices division, home to top Treasury officials. [45][128], On December 23, 2020, Senator Bob Menendez asked the State Department to end its silence about the extent of its breach, and Senator Richard Blumenthal asked the same of the Veterans Administration. Because of all those sensational and sometimes conflicting MSM news reports, it’s evident that the American people are being subjected to yet another major psychological operation in 2020. [20][44][45], In addition to the theft of data, the attack caused costly inconvenience to tens of thousands of SolarWinds customers, who had to check whether they had been breached, and had to take systems offline and begin months-long decontamination procedures as a precaution. [5][36] FireEye said that additional government, consulting, technology, telecom and extractive entities in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East may also have been affected. 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[22], On December 8, 2020, the cybersecurity firm FireEye announced that red team tools had been stolen from it by what it believed to be a state-sponsored attacker. [217], The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) helped to compensate for a staffing shortfall at CISA. [113][8][24] U.S. officials stated that the specific groups responsible were probably the SVR or Cozy Bear (also known as APT29). [27][26] The cyberattack and data breach were reported to be among the worst cyber-espionage incidents ever suffered by the U.S., due to the sensitivity and high profile of the targets and the long duration (eight to nine months) in which the hackers had access. The SolarWinds hack is among the most ambitious cyber operations ever disclosed, compromising at least half-a-dozen federal agencies and potentially thousands of companies and other institutions. The information that is emerging about Russia’s extensive cyberintelligence operation against the United States and other countries should be increasingly alarming to the public. [72][2] Biden's incoming chief of staff, Ron Klain, said the Biden administration's response to the hack would extend beyond sanctions. [218], On December 18, 2020, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that some details of the event would likely be classified so as not to become public. The SolarWinds hack has, perhaps most significantly, shown how interconnected many businesses are in the tech, retail, service, and infrastructure spaces are. This week I am spending a bit of time discussing The huge hack on SolarWinds Orion Software and why we will be feeling the repercussions for years — and yes it could have been prevented. totalZero 5 days ago. [120][121][122], On December 19, U.S. president Donald Trump publicly addressed the attacks for the first time, suggesting without evidence that China, rather than Russia, might be responsible. [102] That attack failed because - for security reasons - CrowdStrike does not use Office 365 for email. [61][19] The tool that the attackers used to insert SUNBURST into Orion updates was later isolated by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, who called it SUNSPOT. [103], Separately, in or shortly before October 2020, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center reported that an apparently state-sponsored attacker had been observed exploiting zerologon, a vulnerability in Microsoft's NetLogon protocol. [20][112], SolarWinds said it believed the malware insertion into Orion was performed by a foreign nation. [130], On December 23, 2020, the UK Information Commissioner's Office - a national privacy authority - told UK organizations to check immediately whether they were impacted. [4], Simply downloading a compromised version of Orion was not necessarily sufficient to result in a data breach; further investigation was required in each case to establish whether a breach resulted. [1][135] Outside the U.S., reported SolarWinds clients included parts of the British government, including the Home Office, National Health Service, and signals intelligence agencies; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); the European Parliament; and likely AstraZeneca. Recent news articles have all been talking about the massive Russian cyberattack against the United States, but that’s wrong on two accounts. "[250][251] U.S. [77][90] If able to contact one of those servers, this would alert the attackers of a successful malware deployment and offer the attackers a back door that the attackers could choose to utilise if they wished to exploit the system further. [1][140] Russia denied involvement in the attacks. Microsoft Corp. was wrapped into a massive cybersecurity attack late last year, but the unprecedented intrusion may actually end up being a positive for the company’s bottom line. [105][106][107] FireEye was believed to be a target of the SVR, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service. [57][58][59] Numerous federal cybersecurity recommendations made by the Government Accountability Office and others had not been implemented. Trump then pivoted to insisting that he had won the 2020 presidential election. [216][51] The U.S. Cyber Command threatened swift retaliation against the attackers, pending the outcome of investigations. [1][134][6], SolarWinds said that of its 300,000 customers, 33,000 use Orion. [20][21], During 2019 and 2020, cybersecurity firm Volexity discovered an attacker making suspicious usage of Microsoft products within the network of a think tank whose identity has not publicly been revealed. This is classic espionage. [64], On December 14, 2020, the CEOs of several American utility companies convened to discuss the risks posed to the power grid by the attacks. [26][25] The cyberattack and data breach were reported to be among the worst cyber-espionage incidents ever suffered by the U.S., due to the sensitivity and high profile of the targets and the long duration (eight to nine months) in which the hackers had access. [13][101] On December 23, 2020, the CEO of FireEye said Russia was the most likely culprit and the attacks were "very consistent" with the SVR. [5], Simply downloading a compromised version of Orion was not necessarily sufficient to result in a data breach; further investigation was required in each case to establish whether a breach resulted. [34] Within days of its discovery, at least 200 organizations around the world had been reported to be affected by the attack, and some of these may also have suffered data breaches. Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) described the attack as tantamount to a declaration of war. [89][4][100], Vulnerabilities in VMware Access and VMware Identity Manager, allowing existing network intruders to pivot and gain persistence, were utilized in 2020 by Russian state-sponsored attackers. SolarWinds Orion hack: Why cybersecurity experts are worried The US government is reeling from multiple data breaches at top federal agencies, the result of … [47] The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) advised that affected devices be rebuilt from trusted sources, and that all credentials exposed to SolarWinds software should be considered compromised and should therefore be reset. [242], Writing for The Dispatch, Goldsmith wrote that the failure of defense and deterrence strategies against cyber-intrusion should prompt consideration of a "mutual restraint" strategy, "whereby the United States agrees to curb certain activities in foreign networks in exchange for forbearance by our adversaries in our networks. [21][22] As of December 18, 2020, while it was definitively known that the Sunburst trojan would have provided suitable access to exploit the VMware bugs, it was not yet definitively known whether attackers had in fact chained those two exploits in the wild. The SolarWinds hack is among the most ambitious cyber operations ever disclosed, compromising at least half-a-dozen federal agencies and potentially thousands of companies and other institutions. [212], SolarWinds unpublished its featured customer list after the hack,[213] although as of December 15, cybersecurity firm GreyNoise Intelligence said SolarWinds had not removed the infected software updates from its distribution server. Microsoft says it identified 40+ victims of the SolarWinds hack. [226], Senator Ron Wyden called for mandatory security reviews of software used by federal agencies. [247] Law professor Jack Goldsmith wrote that the hack was a damaging act of cyber-espionage but "does not violate international law or norms" and wrote that "because of its own practices, the U.S. government has traditionally accepted the legitimacy of foreign governmental electronic spying in U.S. government networks. [247], In the New York Times, Paul Kolbe, former CIA agent and director of the Intelligence Project at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, echoed Schneier's call for improvements in the U.S.'s cyberdefenses and international agreements. This is a much bigger story than one single agency. [58][59][60] Numerous federal cybersecurity recommendations made by the Government Accountability Office and others had not been implemented. [1] Within days, additional federal departments were found to have been breached. If you think about data that is only available to the CEO, or data that is only available to IT services, [the attacker would get] all of this data. [219], On December 14, 2020, the Department of Commerce confirmed that it had asked the CISA and the FBI to investigate. 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Slowik, Joe. [9][27][220] The NSC activated Presidential Policy Directive 41, an Obama-era emergency plan, and convened its Cyber Response Group. [61][62] SolarWinds did not employ a chief information security officer or senior director of cybersecurity. [80], On December 12, 2020, a National Security Council (NSC) meeting was held at the White House to discuss the breach of federal organizations. [9][39][55] This attack apparently used counterfeit identity tokens of some kind, allowing the attackers to trick Microsoft's authentication systems. [223], On December 24, 2020, CISA said state and local government networks, in addition to federal ones, and other organizations, had been impacted by the attack, but did not provide further details. The company was co-founded by Donald Yonce (a former executive at Walmart ) and his brother David Yonce. [83][94] FireEye named the malware SUNBURST. [48][3] President Donald Trump was silent for days after the attack, before spuriously suggesting that China, not Russia, might have been responsible for it, and that "everything is well under control". The magnitude of the hacking, now believed to have affected more than 250 federal agencies and businesses — primarily through … [43] Marco Rubio, acting chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the U.S. must retaliate, but only once the perpetrator is certain. [98] By using command-and-control IP addresses based in the U.S., and because much of the malware involved was new, the attackers were able to evade detection by Einstein, a national cybersecurity system operated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). From top, clockwise: List of confirmed connected data breaches. [140] Cyberconflict professor Thomas Rid said the stolen data would have myriad uses. "[36][124], On December 20, Democratic senator Mark Warner, briefed on the incident by intelligence officials, said "all indications point to Russia. [20] VMware released patches on December 3, 2020. [225] The committee's vice-chairman, Mark Warner, criticized President Trump for failing to acknowledge or react to the hack. [86][11] Once inside the target networks, the attackers pivoted, installing exploitation tools such as Cobalt strike components,[93][90] and seeking additional access. The WEF’s proclaimed Cyberpandemic has begun: defense, power, water, finance, and our supply chain are all vulnerable to massive disruptions after FireEye & SolarWind have unleashed weapons of mass digital destruction AND unlocked the back doors of governments, militaries, and nearly the entire Fortune 500. 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[22][14][8][17], At least one reseller of Microsoft cloud services was compromised by the attackers, constituting a supply chain attack that allowed the attackers to access Microsoft cloud services used by the reseller's customers. But No Sign Of Russian Spies", "La. With shared cloud resources and managed services, serious security breaches can have ripple effects across different and disparate systems and organizations. [222], The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) helped to compensate for a staffing shortfall at CISA. [8][9] The attackers exploited software or credentials from at least three U.S. firms: Microsoft, SolarWinds, and VMware. [245] Most current and former U.S. officials considered the 2020 Russian hack to be a "stunning and distressing feat of espionage" but not a cyberattack because the Russians did not appear to destroy or manipulate data or cause physical damage (for example, to the electrical grid). 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