SolarWinds : it ’s the hacker that keeps on growing . On Monday , researchers announced the discovery of yet another malware air used by extraneous hacker to infiltrate a wide-cut milieu of American governing agencies and company .
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Cybersecurity firm Symantec hasreported its discoveryof “ Raindrop , ” a “ loader ” ( a distant memory access tool ) that was creditworthy for deliver a Cobalt Strike radio beacon lading ( a post - compromise agentive role that drudge use to stealthily penetrate deeper into a dupe ’s meshing ) . With Raindrop , the hacker were able-bodied to set up shop in a select bit of target computer in monastic order to conduct surveillance , researchers said .
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This late discovery bring the full numeral of SolarWinds - relate malware to four . Between this and the three other known nisus ( Teardrop , Sunspot , andSunburst ) , security department researcher are for certain running out of byname that go like the names of defective prog - rock’n’roll bands .
Also reveal Tuesday was yet another apparent dupe in the ongoing cyber nightmare : Malwarebytes , a cybersecurity and anti - malware software company , whichreported thatthe same hackers who have wreaked so much mayhem elsewhere seem to have also accessed their internal emails .
Malwarebytes , which sell a variety show of anti - malware and endpoint security products , claims that hacker which show the same “ manoeuvre and proficiency ” used by the SolarWinds bad guys violate their company ’s electronic mail . These hackers “ only gain entree to a special subset of national company emails , ” the company take , and officials say they have “ found no evidence of unauthorized access or via media in any of our internal on - premises and yield environment . ”
These are the latest updates in the alarming , ostensibly unending tale of SolarWinds : America ’s largest cyberattack ever , a supply chain of mountains breach in which , among other thing , hackers penetrate the titular software company and used its popular IT management software , Orion , to pass through myriad federal agency . Such inconsequential entities asthe Department of Defense , the DOJ , the U.S. State Department , the Department of Energy , and the federal agencyresponsible for maintaining our stockpile of nuclear weaponshave all been involved .
The U.S. governmenthas tentatively blamedthis whole peck on “ Russian hack , ” the specific grouping of which others have speculated is APT 29 , otherwise lie with as “ Cozy Bear . ”
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