Researchers See Links Between SolarWinds Sunburst Malware and Russian Turla APT Group

Researchers at Kaspersky said they found code similarities between the Sunburst malware deployed on SolarWinds Orion servers and known versions of Kazuar backdoors linked to the Russian APT group Turla. Oliver Tavakoli, chief technology officer at Vectra, added that these types of findings reinforce the fact that attackers don’t reinvent their attack methodologies and tools from scratch.