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Treasury Department, including the IRS and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

Health and Human Services Department, including the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health.

Transportation Department, including the Federal Highway Administration.

General Services Administration, including the Federal Acquisition Service.

Agriculture Department, including the Farm Service Agency.

Interior Department, including Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, National Parks Service, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and the Interior Business Center, which provides managed human resources, accounting and IT services to other federal agencies.

The company claims on its website to service many federal and defense customers, including the Census Bureau, departments of Justice, Treasury and Veterans Affairs, Oak Ridge and Sandia national laboratories, the Pentagon, Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps and the intelligence community.ДЄ dive into contracting documents by analysts at The Pulse of GovCon shows a long list of customers that have purchased the Orion software, specifically: The tools look at which devices and processes are using the most resources and either make sure those resources are available or help IT managers resolve potential issues. The SolarWinds Orion product is used to monitor and optimize IT infrastructure in a large-scale environment, like that at most federal agencies.

Other indicators related to this issue to be shared by CISAДЄdditionally, agencies вЂњthat have the expertiseвЂќ- or вЂњstaff or supporting personnel that are properly trained in taking a forensic image of system memory and have tooling readily-available to immediately do soвЂќ-should image systems to capture any evidence of compromise or intrusion, such as вЂњnew users or service accounts, privileged or otherwise.вЂќ.

Department-level chief information officers-given top-down authority over component CIOs under the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act-must sign off on the submission.ДЄgencies are also required by noon to have searched out and reported instances of: Security teams should also begin hunting for suspicious users and accounts, which should be removed when found.ДЄgencies have until noon Monday to submit a form to CISA attesting вЂњthat the affected devices were either disconnected or powered down,вЂќ the directive states.

#Solarwinds raided software#

IT managers should proactively block all incoming traffic-from outside the agency network-directed toward a system or enclave where вЂњ any version of SolarWinds Orion software has been installed,вЂќ CISA said.

вЂњAffected entities should expect further communications from CISA and await guidance before rebuilding from trusted sources utilizing the latest version of the product available.вЂќ

#Solarwinds raided windows#

вЂњUntil such time as CISA directs affected entities to rebuild the Windows operating system and reinstall the SolarWinds software package, agencies are prohibited from (re)joining the Windows host OS to the enterprise domain,вЂќ the directive states. The directive is not optional and instructs agencies to leave the products disconnected from agency networks for the foreseeable future. The directive only applies to civilian agencies, as CISA does not have authority over the Defense Department or intelligence agencies. In the emergency directive-only the fifth in the agencyвЂ™s history-CISA officials are requiring federal agencies identify instances of the SolarWinds software in their systems and вЂњimmediately disconnect or power down SolarWinds Orion productsвЂќ by noon Monday, the alert states.

However, federal agencies are instructed not to install-or reinstall-any instances of SolarWinds Orion until cleared by CISA, per an emergency directive issued late Sunday.

#Solarwinds raided update#

On its site, the company issued an advisory urging clients to update to the latest version of the Orion software, 2020.2.1 HF 1, available through the customer portal. The attacks targeted Orion software versions 2019.4 HF 5 through 2020.2.1-the versions released between March 2020 and June 2020. Early reports suggest hackers working for the Russian government were involved in the breaches. News broke over the weekend that officials at CISA and the FBI were investigating breaches at two of the largest federal agencies-the Commerce and Treasury departments-related to a flaw in the SolarWinds Orion software. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ordered all government departments by noon Monday to identify and shut off instances of SolarWinds Orion software running or connected to any government system, as agencies scrambled to mitigate potential damage from a critical vulnerability in software used by a huge swath of the federal government and military.