[German]The hack of several U.S. agencies via the SUNBURST backdoor in SolarWinds Orion software is growing. The networks of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the US Department of Energy (DOE) have also been hacked. The attackers used multiple strategies and the cleanup may take months.
[German]In Windows 10 20H2 with installed cumulative update KB4592438, chkdsk causes massive issues. It destroys the file system during a disk check on SSDs, so Windows 10 can't start after a reboot. Here is some information about the problem and the affected Windows 10 build. Addenum: Microsoft has fixed that bug.
[German]Will individuals and schools soon be able to keep their old Windows computers running Google's Chrome OS? That's what an acquisition on Google's part, which just came to my attention, suggests.
[German]Security researchers from IBM Trusteer have openly lived a large-scale fraud campaign. Those behind it were able to steal millions from banks in the US and EU using cell phone emulator farms.
[German]Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has issued a security advisory. There is a critical vulnerability (0-day bug) in HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) that affects Linux and Windows versions.
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[German]Small additions in the matter of hacking of companies and US authorities by the SUNBURST malware delivered via update for the Orion software. There is an analysis tool SolarFlare, to determine what permissions the Orion software had. The domain of the hackers with the C&C server has been taken over – Microsoft and FireEye have established 'a killswitch'. And the software Einstein, which was developed at a cost of billions, did not notice anything about this hack.
[German]An analysis of the supply chain attack on the Orion product line of the US security vendor SolarWinds suggests that the attackers had access to the source code base. For months, they prepared the insertion of the Trojan, which acted as a backdoor, and injected it into the source code.
[German]Another topic I like to cover. With the update KB4586853 for Windows 10 2004 and 20H2, Microsoft also addressed the bug that caused bluescreens on Thunderbolt NVMe SSD units. The upgrade block has therefore been lifted as of December 11, 2020.
[German]Microsoft has published an overview of revisions of various CVEs as of December 15, 2020. I received the whole thing by mail last night, and I'm posting it here for your information.
[German]The knowledge about the cyber attack against US authorities and companies via the SUNBURST backdoor is growing. The U.S. State Department and other government agencies may have been hacked as well. Meanwhile, Microsoft and other industry partners have seized the domain with the C&C server and hope to be able to track down infected systems.
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