Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has discovered the malware used by the SolarWinds hackers to inject backdoors in Orion platform builds during the supply-chain attack that led to the compromise of several companies and government agencies.
Sunspot, as it was dubbed by CrowdStrike, was dropped by the attackers in the development environment of SolarWinds’ Orion IT management software.
After being executed, the malware would monitor and automatically injecting a Sunburst backdoor by replacing the company’s legitimate source code with malicious code.
“The design of SUNSPOT suggests StellarParticle developers invested a lot of effort to ensure the code was properly inserted and remained undetected, and prioritized operational security to avoid revealing their presence in the build environment to SolarWinds developers,” CrowdStrike found.
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Source: Bleeping Computer