It had about 300,000 customers as of December 2020, including nearly all Fortune 500 companies and numerous federal agencies. It has also acquired a number of other companies, some of which it still operates under their original names, including Pingdom, Papertrail and Loggly. The company was publicly traded from May 2009 until the end of 2015, and again from October 2018. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with sales and product development offices in a number of locations in the United States and several other countries. is an American company that develops software for businesses to help manage their networks, systems, and information technology infrastructure. Additional recommendations and analysis are provided by FireEye and Microsoft that provide detailed analysis of the backdoor and also provide indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to see if they are affected.SolarWinds Inc. SolarWinds recommends organizations that are affected by this cyber-attack update their Orion software with the latest version. Once on the internal network, the attackers were able to access sensitive credentials on the SolarWinds server and move throughout the network to access other internal resources. Any organization that installed one of the compromised versions of Orion allowed attackers into their internal network. Treasury and Commerce Departments.Īttackers were able to use their unauthorized access to SolarWinds’ systems to install a “backdoor” in specific versions of their network monitoring tool, called SolarWinds Orion. Initial analysis connects this backdoor in SolarWinds to a recent compromise of systems at the U.S. Many companies, large and small, utilize their software, including the majority of Fortune 500 companies and other large federal government agencies. SolarWinds is a popular software company that sells a variety of system management and monitoring tools. On Sunday, December 13, 2020, it was disclosed that SolarWinds was the victim of a cybersecurity attack.
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