![]() ![]() In a statement, CISA acting director Brandon Wales said “the compromise of SolarWinds’ Orion Network Management Products poses unacceptable risks to the security of federal networks.” The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued Emergency Directive 21-01 in response to the SolarWinds compromise which calls “on all federal civilian agencies to review their networks for indicators of compromise and disconnect or power down SolarWinds Orion products immediately.” It was later disclosed that the attack was enabled by using trojanized updates to SolarWinds’ Orion IT monitoring and management software, although Solarwinds said that fewer than 18,000 of its global customers had been affected. Last week FireEye disclosed that it had spotted an attack from nation state actors looking for data on government clients, where attackers were able to access some internal systems and steal some of FireEye’s red team tools. ![]() Government agencies have issued warnings about the fresh spate of attacks, apparently from nation-state actors against major security vendors. ![]()
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