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CrowdStrike Fends Off Attack Attempted By SolarWinds Hackers
The suspected Russian hackers behind the massive SolarWinds attack attempted to hack CrowdStrike through a Microsoft reseller’s Azure account but were ultimately unsuccessful, CrowdStrike said.
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based endpoint security giant said it was contacted on Dec. 15 by Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center, which had identified a reseller’s Microsoft Azure account making abnormal calls to Microsoft cloud APIs during a 17-hour period several months ago, CrowdStrike Chief Technology Officer Michael Sentonas wrote in a blog post Wednesday.
The reseller’s Azure account was used for managing CrowdStrike’s Microsoft Office licenses, and Sentonas said the hackers attempted to read the company’s email. That attempt was unsuccessful, Sentonas said, adding that CrowdStrike’s findings were confirmed by Microsoft. As part of CrowdStrike’s secure IT architecture, Sentonas said the company doesn’t use Office 365 email.
[Related: SolarWinds Deploys CrowdStrike To Secure Systems After Hack]
“CrowdStrike conducted a thorough review into not only our Azure environment, but all of our infrastructure for the indicators shared by Microsoft,” Sentonas wrote in the blog post. “The information shared by Microsoft reinforced our conclusion that CrowdStrike suffered no impact.”
CrowdStrike’s review in the wake of the SolarWinds hack was “extensive” and included both the company’s production and internal environments, according to Sentonas. The firm’s stock is up $45.23 (25.7 percent) to $221.12 per share since news of Russian foreign intelligence service hackers injecting malware into updates of SolarWinds’ Orion network monitoring platform went public on Dec. 13.
The reseller was not identified in CrowdStrike’s blog post, and the company declined further comment on the attempted attack.
Microsoft told CRN that if a customer buys a cloud service from a reseller and allows the reseller to retain administrative access, then a compromise of reseller credentials would grant access to the customer’s tenant. This abuse of access would not be a compromise of Microsoft’s services themselves, according to the company.
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Laurentian U. fends off cyber attack
The university experienced a Distributed Denial of Service Attack, which it was able to stop within minutes
Laurentian University said it was able to fend off a cyber attack Thursday.
“We can confirm that Laurentian experienced a Distributed Denial of Service Attack, which we were able to stop within minutes,” said an email to Sudbury.com from Laurentian spokesperson Shaun Malley.
“None of our systems have been compromised.”
According to the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack is a form of a Denial of Service (DoS) Attack.
These type of attacks involve the perpetrator flooding the target (e.g. a server hosting a website or an organization’s network) with traffic. The target is then overloaded by this traffic and cannot respond to it or the system crashes.
A Distributed Denial of Service Attack has the same goal of disrupting and preventing access to information, but it looks a bit different.
Multiple machines are used to attack one target. While a DDoS attack can be a co-ordinated effort between a group of threat actors, it can also be carried out by one person using a botnet.
Iran Fends off US Attack as Part of ‘Relentless Cyber War’ – teleSUR English
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Iran Fends off US Attack as Part of 'Relentless Cyber War'
teleSUR English “They are doing their utmost to create roadblocks to prevent Iran's progress and success through cyber warfare,” said Brig. Gen. Massoud Jazayeri, the Iranian military's deputy chief of staff. Jazayeri alleged “hundreds of U.S. think tanks” are … Iran Claims US Attempted Cyber Attack On Oil Ministry Iran claims blockade of US cyberattack in post-Stuxnet furore Iran foils US cyber-attack on oil ministry |