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Top Treasury Email Accounts Exposed In SolarWinds Hack: Report The hackers performed a complex step inside Microsoft Office 365 to create an encrypted “token” that tricked the Treasury’s system into thinking the hackers were legitimate users, The New York Times said. By Michael Novinson December 21, 2020, 10:12 PM EST The SolarWinds hackers seized upon a Microsoft flaw to infiltrate the email system used by the U.S. Treasury Department’s senior leadership, The New York Times reported. Dozens of Treasury email accounts were compromised, including thos...

Microsoft Breached Via SolarWinds As Scope Of Destruction Widens: Report Suspected Russian hackers capitalized on Microsoft’s wide use of SolarWinds to infiltrate the software giant, and then used Microsoft’s own products to further their attacks on other victims, Reuters said. Microsoft pushed back on the report. By Michael Novinson December 17, 2020, 08:23 PM EST The SolarWinds breach has claimed its second reported private-sector victim, with hackers capitalizing on Microsoft’s wide use of SolarWinds to infiltrate the software giant, Reuters said. Ju...

VMware Flaw Used To Hit Choice Targets In SolarWinds Hack: Report A VMware vulnerability that allowed federated authentication abuse was used by the SolarWinds hackers to attack valuable targets, KrebsOnSecurity said. VMware said it didn’t have any indication of this happening. By Michael Novinson December 18, 2020, 03:52 PM EST A VMware vulnerability that allowed access to protected data and federated authentication abuse was used by the SolarWinds hackers to attack high-value targets, KrebsOnSecurity reported. The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) warn...

Feds: SolarWinds Attack ‘Poses a Grave Risk’ To Government, Business The U.S. government says it has evidence of additional initial access vectors beyond the SolarWinds Orion supply chain compromise, but noted that those other attack methods are still being investigated. By Michael Novinson December 17, 2020, 04:50 PM EST The U.S. government warned Thursday that removing the SolarWinds hackers from compromised environments will be a highly complex and challenging endeavor for organizations. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said ...

Anomali Speeds Visibility into Global Cyber Threat Landscape, Provides Added Support for COVID-19 Related Threat Intelligence GlobeNewswire REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Anomali, the leader in intelligence-driven cybersecurity solutions, today announced availability of its quarterly product update. In response to requests from our global customer base, new features and capabilities have been added across our product suite that further automate and speed essential tasks performed by threat intelligence and security operations analysts. Customers deployin...