telecommunications companies and top five U.S. military, the Pentagon, the State Department, NASA, the NSA, the Department of Justice and the White House. On its website, SolarWinds says it has 300,000 customers worldwide, including all five branches of the U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Ullyot said in a statement that the government was “taking all necessary steps to identify and remedy any possible issues related to this situation.” Who are the SolarWinds customers who might be affected? FILE – This Mafile photo shows the Pentagon in Washington.
Cybersecurity experts said last week that they considered Russian state hackers to be the main suspect. government did not publicly identify Russia as the culprit behind the hacks, first reported by Reuters, and said little about who might be responsible. It said that the hacks did not seed self-propagating malware - like the 2016 NotPetya malware blamed on Russia that caused more than $10 billion in damage globally - and that any actual infiltration of an infected organization required “meticulous planning and manual interaction.” Securities and Exchange Commission’s report for SolarWinds, the company has retained third-party cybersecurity experts to investigate, including whether any customer systems were possibly exposed.įireEye said it had notified “multiple organizations” globally where it saw indications of compromise. SolarWinds notified around 33,000 Orion product customers on Sunday, although it’s only believed that fewer than 18,000 were possibly made vulnerable, the company said.Īccording to the U.S. More information is available at - SolarWinds December 14, 2020
SolarWinds asks all customers to upgrade immediately to Orion Platform version 2020.2.1 HF 1 to address a security vulnerability. SolarWinds is headquarted in Austin with offices off of Southwest Parkway in Southwest Austin.įireEye, without naming the breached agencies or other targets, said in a blog post that its investigation into the hack of its own network had identified “a global campaign” targeting governments and the private sector that, beginning in the spring, slipped malware into a SolarWinds software update. federal agencies who will now be scrambling to patch up their networks, said Alperovitch, the former chief technical officer of the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. It is used by hundreds of thousands of organizations globally, including most Fortune 500 companies and multiple U.S. The apparent conduit for the Treasury and Commerce Department hacks - and the FireEye compromise - is a hugely popular piece of server software called SolarWinds. Report: Experts scrutinize SolarWinds’ cybersecurity in recent years How and why hackers targeted SolarWinds SolarWinds emailed its customers warning about the hack and recommending they upgrade immediately.
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