Treasury Department’s senior leaders were targeted by SolarWinds hack The SolarWinds hack continues to reveal its reach. The email system used by the Treasury Department’s most senior leadership suffered what it describes as “a serious breach, beginning in July, the…

Attackers staged a dry-run against SolarWinds in October 2019 Yahoo News’ sources say the operators of the attack conducted a test run of the campaign five months before the supply-chain attack began in earnest. This test sent files without backdoors…

SolarWinds supply chain attack updates The US government and high profile companies struggle to assess and control the damage from the SolarWinds attack which has compromised a range of agencies including the NNSA – the US Nuclear Agency. Items of…

Ex-Homeland Security adviser: ‘We’re being hacked’ Thomas P. Bossert, former Homeland Security adviser to Presidents Trump and George W. Bush, said in a New York Times article that the magnitude of the ongoing SolarWinds hack is “hard to overstate” and…

Trump considers clemency for Silk Road founder The Daily’s Beast’s sources say the White House counsel’s office has had documents related to the case of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht under review. Sources also say that President Trump has privately…

Microsoft seizes SolarWinds domain – quarantine starts today The move was made to seize and sinkhole the avsvmcloud[.]com domain that played a central role in the SolarWinds hack. The domain served as command and control server for malware that was…

SolarWinds Orion carrying malware The company said updates to its IT management platform between March and June may have carried malware as a result of a sophisticated nation-state supply-chain attack. SolarWinds says Microsoft notified it of a compromise to SolarWinds’…

Adrozek malware can infect over 30K Windows PCs a day This new credential-stealing malware injects ads into search engine results pages often on top of legitimate ads from search engines in order to hijack Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Yandex Browser,…

Breaking up Facebook won’t be easy The US government and 48 attorneys general want to break up Facebook. In twin lawsuits filed on Wednesday, they allege that Facebook has engaged in illegal, anti-competitive tactics to buy, bully and kill its…

The Cybersecurity community responds to FireEye hack On Tuesday, FireEye revealed it was hacked and its “Red Team” software it uses for penetration testing was stolen. The Washington Post reported those responsible for the breach were from a group known…