{"id":117487,"date":"2020-12-21T09:22:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T17:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/new-supernova-backdoor-found-in-solarwinds-cyberattack-analysis"},"modified":"2020-12-21T09:22:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T17:22:33","slug":"new-supernova-backdoor-found-in-solarwinds-cyberattack-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/new-supernova-backdoor-found-in-solarwinds-cyberattack-analysis","title":{"rendered":"New SUPERNOVA backdoor found in SolarWinds cyberattack analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-supernova-backdoor-found-in-solarwinds-cyberattack-analysis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While analyzing artifacts from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/the-solarwinds-cyberattack-the-hack-the-victims-and-what-we-know\/\">SolarWinds Orion supply-chain attack<\/a>, security researchers discovered another backdoor that is likely from a second threat actor.<\/p>\n<p>Named SUPERNOVA, the malware is a webshell planted in the code of the Orion network and applications monitoring platform and enabled adversaries to run arbitrary code on machines running the trojanized version of the software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While analyzing artifacts from the SolarWinds Orion supply-chain attack, security researchers discovered another backdoor that is likely from a second threat actor. Named SUPERNOVA, the malware is a webshell planted in the code of the Orion network and applications monitoring platform and enabled adversaries to run arbitrary code on machines running the trojanized version of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}