Microsoft discovers new vulnerability that was exploited by SolarWinds hackers

In a statement Microsoft said, it had found a new vulnerability which was exploited by SolarWinds hackers. The attackers had gained  access to one of Microsoft’s customer-service agents, they had then used information gained from there to launch hacking attempts against customers. Microsoft had discovered the route used by hackers while responding to hacks by a…

Hackers breach Swedish IT firm InfoSolutions’ medical database

Hackers have breached the cyber defenses of a Swedish information technology firm; so far it is unclear whether the breach has resulted in the attackers gaining access to a database containing patient data, including COVID-19 test results. In a statement InfoSolutions said, it has “identified and solved what made the intrusion possible.” However, as yet,…

Chinese state-sponsored hacking group HAFNIUM pillaged user inboxes which use Microsoft Exchange Server

In a statement, Microsoft cyber security experts along with cyber security experts from outside of the company said, a cyberespionage group from China has been remotely plundering email inboxes using 0-day exploits in Microsoft mail server software. In a blog post Microsoft said, the cyber-espionage group dubbed as HAFNIUM, a state-sponsored entity operating out of…

U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence told SolarWind hack affected 60 Microsoft customers

During a U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Microsoft Corp’s president Brad Smith stated, the company has notified 60 customers that their data was most likely compromised by hackers during a hacking campaign revolving around Texas-based software firm SolarWinds Corp. In prepared remarks, Smith told members of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that…

Hackers gained access to U.S. nuclear network

In a significant development, Politico has reported citing officials directly familiar with the matter at hand as saying hackers had gained access to computers in the U.S. Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration. The National Nuclear Security Administration manages the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile. In a statement it said it had evidence that hackers…

SolarWinds products have been injected with malicious code by state-backed hackers

In a statement, SolarWinds, an IT company said, monitoring products that it had released earlier this year in March and in June may have been surreptitiously tampered with in a “highly-sophisticated, targeted and manual supply chain attack by a nation state.” The statement by SolarWinds comes even as the U.S. intelligence community is investigating cyber…