SUNBURST
Essential information
- Confidence
- 100/100
- Is family
- Yes
- Published
- 05/01/2021 23:42
- Modified
- 27/03/2026 01:05
- Revoked
- No
- Author / Source
- The MITRE Corporation
- Related entities
- 37 attack patterns (mitre), 1 intrusion sets (apt), 1 campaign, 1 reports, 1 campaigns
Aliases
Solorigate
Description
[SUNBURST](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0559) is a trojanized DLL designed to fit within the SolarWinds Orion software update framework. It was used by [APT29](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0016) since at least February 2020.(Citation: SolarWinds Sunburst Sunspot Update January 2021)(Citation: Microsoft Deep Dive Solorigate January 2021)
Marking (TLP)
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