SolarWinds disclosed on Dec 13 that vulnerabilities in their network management tool Orion was used to mount attacks on FireEye and on several Government agencies. CSW analyzed Orion’s 15 Vulnerabilities and has found that CVE-2019-9546 – with a known critical Privilege Execution Exploit needs immediate remediation along with an upgrade to Orion Platform version 2020.2.1 HF.1.
Security Agencies CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency), FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have issued a high alert joint security advisory to hospitals to take actions to secure themselves from Ryuk ransomware in particular.
Evil Corp used compromised legitimate websites to deliver ransomware in Garmin’s environment. The attack caused a 5-day outage for their product users. CSW Analysts have put together a list of domains, hashes, IOCs that have been compromised. Download the list to update your IPS/IDS and avoid being attacked.