SolarWinds hackers also used brute force password techniques to breach victims

While the majority of victims of the SolarWinds supply chain attack were breached through the compromised Orion update, some had their perimeters breached via brute force password techniques. According to a recently updated advisory from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the SolarWinds attackers didn’t always rely on the poisoned Orion update as the initial access vector. “CISA …

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Password stealing and banking trojans have doubled in recent years

Trojans that steal passwords and banking information from their victims have been constantly on the rise for the past two years. According to fresh figures from AT&T’s Alien Labs Open Threat Exchange, the number of threats increased between Q3 2019 and Q3 2020 by 130 percent. A year before that – Q3 2018 to Q3 2019, the number of threats …

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