FireEye was the cybersecurity company that was tasked with the response to the Sony and Equifax data breaches and aided Saudi Arabia’s government to fight off a cyberattack in their oil industry.
The experts believe that SolarWinds might have been the hackers’ target. And on Sunday, the Washington Post reported that the two federal agencies and FireEye were all breached through the SolarWinds network management system.
Dmitri Alpervitch, the former chief technical officer of Crowdstrike, and cybersecurity expert claims that all SolarWinds end-users will now be scrambling to patch up their networks. The patch is available through the NSA advisory.
This is a critical cyberattack because SolarWinds would give a hacker “God-mode” access to an entire network, so nothing is encrypted and everything visible, explained Alperovitch.
The server software was developed by Austin, Texas-based SolarWinds. , and operates as the management interface of any device where it is used. Unfortunately, it is widely used by multiple U.S. government agencies and hundreds of thousands of global organizations.
