OCR is sharing an update with our listserv from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), addressing an active exploitation of SolarWinds Orion Platform software versions 2019.4 through 2020.2.1, released between March 2020 and June 2020, which could significantly compromise information systems:
Active Exploitation of SolarWinds Software
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of active exploitation of SolarWinds Orion Platform software versions 2019.4 through 2020.2.1, released between March 2020 and June 2020.
CISA encourages affected organizations to read the SolarWinds and FireEye advisories for more information and FireEye’s GitHub page for detection countermeasures:
- SolarWinds Security Advisory
- FireEye Advisory: Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain to Compromise Multiple Global Victims With SUNBURST Backdoor
- FireEye GitHub page: Sunburst Countermeasures
Original release date: December 13, 2020