Malwarebytes Hit by SolarWinds Attackers
The attack vector was not the Orion platform but rather an email-protection application for Microsoft 365. Malwarebytes is the latest discovered victim of the SolarWinds hackers, the security company said – except that it wasn’t targeted through the SolarWinds platform. “While Malwarebytes does not use SolarWinds, we, like many other companies were recently targeted by the same threat actor,” it disclosed in a Tuesday web posting. Instead of using the SolarWinds Orion network-management system, the advanced persistent threat (APT) abused “applications with privileged access to Micro...
Source: threatpost.com