The hiring of Krebs and Stamos comes as SolarWinds president and CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna – who himself only joined the company this week – outlined plans to learn from the cyberattack. SEE: Cybersecurity: This 'costly and destructive' malware is the biggest threat to your network Krebs was fired by Trump via Twitter for debunking the outgoing President's dubious claims about election fraud following his loss to Joe Biden. Now SolarWinds has brought in Chris Krebs, who served as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) until November last year when he was fired by Donald Trump. The US government has formally blamed Russia for being behind the massive supply-chain attack, the full consequences of which may still not be known. SEE: Security Awareness and Training policy (TechRepublic Premium)Ĭybersecurity company FireEye was also targeted as part of the espionage campaign as what they described as state-sponsored hackers looked for information on government customers. Subscribe to TechRepublic Top 5 on YouTube for all the latest tech advice for business pros from Tom Merritt.Agencies targeted included the Department of State Department of Homeland Security National Institutes of Health the Pentagon Department of the Treasury Department of Commerce and the Department of Energy, including the National Nuclear Security Administration. And the data itself is useful at getting a handle on what the threats out there are. It’s not reassuring to see the large amount of money going to ransomware, but if you need help making the case of why it’s important to prepare for it, maybe this helps. Customized versions of MountLocker from Astro Locker and XingLocker are also out there. It’s been used more often against Biotech companies recently. This ransomware effort has been recently updated to better evade security.
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