Tag: Sunburst

Supply chain attacks in interconnected industrial environments are on the increase giving hackers, cyber-terrorists, or enemy state-sponsored cyber attackers access to critical infrastructure and operational technology (OT) environments, apart from accessing company data and gathering confidential information. The critical difference…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a joint cybersecurity advisory on an ongoing sophisticated spearphishing campaign targeting government organizations, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).  Based on incident reports, malware…

Sunburst backdoor code used in the recent SolarWinds cyber incident overlaps with several features of a previously identified .NET backdoor known as Kazuar, according to cybersecurity company Kaspersky. Kazuar was first reported in 2017 by Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42…