Health Sector SolarWinds Security Alert

Other | 12/14/2020

Executive Summary On 13 December 2020, FireEye and SolarWinds released security advisories detailing a highly-skilled and highly-targeted, manual supply chain attack on the SolarWinds Orion Platform network management system that leverages software updates to deploy a backdoor to victim organizations. SolarWinds Orion is an IT performance monitoring platform that helps organizations manage and optimize their IT infrastructure. The actors behind this campaign have likely gained access to numerous public and private organizations around the world starting as early as Spring 2020. Signatures to detect this threat are available and mitigations are detailed in this alert and should be prioritized.

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