A guest on Sean Hannity’s radio show informed the host that the Texas Rangers, U.S. Marshals, and the FBI conducted a raid on the SolarWinds headquarters in Austin, Texas.
SolarWinds Hack
In a security advisory statement, SolarWinds acknowledged that its systems âexperienced a highly sophisticated, manual supply chain attack on SolarWinds Orion Platform software builds for versions 2019.4 HF 5 through 2020.2.1, released between March 2020 and June 2020.â
On Sunday night, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued Emergency Directive 21-01, in response to the confirmed hacking of SolarWinds Orion products.
CISA shared this information on Twitter, writing: “JUST RELEASED: Emergency Directive 21-01 calls on all federal civilian agencies to review their networks for indicators of compromise and disconnect or power down SolarWinds Orion products immediately.”
JUST RELEASED: Emergency Directive 21-01 calls on all federal civilian agencies to review their networks for indicators of compromise and disconnect or power down SolarWinds Orion products immediately. Read more: https://t.co/VFZ81W2Ow7
— Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (@CISAgov) December 14, 2020
âThe compromise of SolarWindsâ Orion Network Management Products poses unacceptable risks to the security of federal networks. Tonightâs directive is intended to mitigate potential compromises within federal civilian networks, and we urge all our partnersâin the public and private sectorsâto assess their exposure to this compromise and to secure their networks against any exploitation,â said CISA Acting Director Brandon Wales.
This was only the fifth CISA Emergency Directive issued since Congress granted the power to the federal agency in the Cybersecurity Act of 2015.
One of the most concerning aspects of this breach is the fact that Dominion Voting Systems uses SolarWinds products.
Dominion has since claimed that they did not use the products, but the Epoch Times reported that SolarWinds was listed on the Dominion website. The link shared by multiple news outlets to the Dominion web page containing SolarWinds name has since been disconnected.
SolarWinds Raid
Though this information has yet to be officially confirmed, a guest on Hannity revealed that the FBI, US Marshals and Texas Rangers have conducted a raid of SolarWinds headquarters in Austin, Texas.
“The agency that is supposed to oversee this type of intrusion, this type of Trojan Malware virus that affects the nation or even the world in this case and to find them. Well, he didn’t detect it. His agency was asleep. They didnât discover it. It was out in the wilds since March. I do have a bit of a breaking news for you, Sean. Iâm here in Texas. I have a good friend whoâs a ranger who passed to me that the FBI, the Texas Rangers and the US Marshals are all at the SolarWinds headquarters in Austin, Texas and they are currently looking very seriously at the systems there⌠There is other information that will be coming out very shortly about the CEO and Executive Vice President that will be stunning as well,” said Hannity’s guest.
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The guest also noted that the hacking of SolarWinds system was “worldwide,” and that the “folks who are at SolarWinds probably knew about it way earlier than they let the world know.”