
The Sunburst espionage campaign that breached FireEye and several government agencies was devious about operational security. To protect useful attack vectors through SolarWinds, Microsoft, and VMWare, the hackers made every effort not to reuse infrastructures or settings or to tie one stage of the attack to another.
When Joe Slowik, senior security researcher at DomainTools, looked at the command and control infrastructure, there were only very loose patterns to be found. The domains were a broad mix – some hacked, and some newly established. They were registered by different services, hosted on different IPs. There was no way to leverage that information into a list of filterable domains. If defenders knew hackers were coming, there would be few traditional indicators of compromise (IoCs).
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