Microsoft reveals GoldMax, Sibot and GoldFinder new malware strains used by SolarWinds hackers

Microsoft has revealed information on newly found malware the SolarWinds hackers deployed on victims’ networks as second-stage payloads. The company now tracks the “sophisticated attacker” who used the Sunburst backdoor and Teardrop malware during the SolarWinds supply-chain attack as Nobelium. Read More …

New Sunshuttle Second-Stage Backdoor Uncovered Targeting U.S.-Based Entity; Possible Connection to UNC2452

Mandiant Threat Intelligence discovered a new backdoor uploaded by a U.S.-based entity to a public malware repository in August 2020 that we have named SUNSHUTTLE. SUNSHUTTLE is written in GO, and reads an embedded or local configuration file, communicates with Read More …