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Re:SolarWinds leaked FTP credentials through a public GitHub... by acdha on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @09:47AM (#25443111)
If you read the reports, rather than second or third hand coverage, note how the attacker concealed their activities after they got in. That’s what sophisticated refers to - breaches are common but avoiding detection for so long on so many networks is not.
Re:SolarWinds leaked FTP credentials through a public GitHub... by neffy on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:16AM (#25443522)
That last is actually rather hard to determine. Detected attacks tend to divide into two groups - the scripted continuous probing that's just background noise these days (but if you have access to the logs on any internet connecting device in front of a firewall you will typically see it being probed at least every 10 minutes), and targeted attacks - where the first rule is to be very careful, lay low, and perform careful data exfiltration. Reading the reports on the kinds of the latter that were discovered, and in particular how they were discovered, suggests there is probably much more of that going on than is generally realised.