SUNSPOT
Essential information
- Confidence
- 100/100
- Is family
- Yes
- Published
- 12/01/2021 17:14
- Modified
- 27/03/2026 01:06
- Revoked
- No
- Author / Source
- The MITRE Corporation
- Related entities
- 12 attack patterns (mitre), 1 intrusion sets (apt), 1 campaign, 1 reports, 1 campaigns
Description
[SUNSPOT](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0562) is an implant that injected the [SUNBURST](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0559) backdoor into the SolarWinds Orion software update framework. It was used by [APT29](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0016) since at least February 2020.(Citation: CrowdStrike SUNSPOT Implant January 2021)
Marking (TLP)
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