
Forensic investigators have discovered a novel malware program used in the SolarWinds supply-chain attack – one designed specifically to seek out developers’ builds of the SolarWinds Orion IT management platform and then replace a source file with the Sunburst backdoor.
Targeting build servers in such a manner is a devious strategy, because such machines prioritize efficiency of developer use over the kind of in-depth security that’s needed to reliably detect malicious activity. SolarWinds noted this week in a new blog post that its software development and build process “is common throughout the software industry” – a troublesome notion that raises the specter of other developer environments being targeted in a similar fashion following the resounding success of this attack.
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