Hackers behind SolarWinds are back targeting retail resellers and tech providers: Microsoft reports
Recently, popular tech giant
Microsoft has made an announcement that hackers behind SolarWinds are back.
Activities were detected from Nobelium, a famous actor in Russia. Back in 2002,
SolarWinds customers were attacked by Russian hackers who were part of an
intelligence group known as SVR. Nobelium had since then been attempting to
remake the approach used by the hackers to target organizations crucial for the
global IT supply chain. This time around, the entity is focused on attacking
different parts of the supply chain like techs related to the retail functions
and resellers. Microsoft is almost certain that the hackers are trying to ride
the direct access wave that resellers generally use to reach downstream
customers.
According to Microsoft, a new
campaign surfaced around May 2021, and since then, notification was sent to
more than 140 retail technology service providers and resellers who Nobelium
targeted. Microsoft has stated that more than 14 of these service providers and
resellers have been exposed to cyber-attack until now. Fortunately for the
community, Microsoft had discovered the attack in the early stage so that the
developments could be saved with other cloud resellers, customers, and tech
providers. The tech giant has assured the community that it will continue to
put efforts into sorting this issue soon.
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