Cybersecurity Briefing — SolarWinds Orion supply chain compromise disclosed
On 13 December 2020 SolarWinds and FireEye revealed that Orion platform updates were trojanized, enabling attackers to infiltrate thousands of government and enterprise networks worldwide.
SolarWinds and FireEye disclosed on 13 December 2020 that malicious code inserted into SolarWinds Orion updates allowed a sophisticated actor to gain remote access to customers. The compromise affected U.S. federal agencies and Fortune 500 firms, driving emergency directives and network forensics across impacted environments.
Security teams should inventory Orion deployments, apply vendor updates that remove the SUNBURST backdoor, rotate credentials, and review network telemetry for anomalous traffic to attacker-controlled domains referenced in CISA and FireEye indicators.
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