SolarWinds' top investors Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo sold a combined $286M worth of stock in the company on Dec. 7, six days before the hack was made public
The timing of the trades raises questions about whether major shareholders used inside information to avoid stark losses after the attack.
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Discussion
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@senblumenthal
Richard Blumenthal
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Stunning. Today's classified briefing on Russia's cyberattack left me deeply alarmed, in fact downright scared. Americans deserve to know what's going on. Declassify what's known & unknown.
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@jasonhowell
Jason Howell
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Not strange at all nope not at all https://twitter.com/...
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@shashj
Shashank Joshi
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“After initiating the hacks by corrupting patches of widely used network monitoring software, the hackers hid well, wiped away their tracks and communicated through IP addresses in the United States rather than ones in, say, Moscow to minimize suspicions.' https://www.washingtonp…
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@drewharwell
Drew Harwell
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New: The two investment firms that own 70% of SolarWinds, the software company at center of Russian mega-breach, sold $280 million in shares just before the hack was revealed (and the stock plunged 22%). Good timing, or ... ? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @dmac1
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@mollywood
Molly Wood
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Oh COME ON https://twitter.com/...
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@campuscodi
Catalin Cimpanu
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These are different from the sales made by the company's execs, previously announced part of 10b5-1 plans (see: https://t.co/...). These are legit shady and took place a day before FireEye disclosed its hack too. https://twitter.com/...
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@biannagolodryga
Bianna Golodryga
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How is this possible? And how are Russians getting so damn good, so fast? “CISA officials told congressional staff on a Monday evening call that the system did not have the capacity to flag the malware that was signaling back to its Russian masters.” https://www.washingtonpost.co…
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@msftsecintel
@msftsecintel
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We're making some updates to detections we released to alert customers about the presence of compromised binaries related to SolarWinds Orion Platform. Starting December 16 at 8:00AM PST, Microsoft Defender Antivirus will block these malicious binaries. https://www.microsoft.com/…
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@chicagocyber
Yoshi
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Some companies are about to find out they actually do use SolarWinds in production... https://twitter.com/...
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@ravivtamir
@ravivtamir
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Please note: Starting Wednesday, December 16 at 8:00 AM PST, Microsoft Defender Antivirus will begin blocking the known malicious SolarWinds binaries. https://www.microsoft.com/...
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@campuscodi
Catalin Cimpanu
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NEW: Microsoft and industry partners seize key domain used in SolarWinds hack Sinkholing efforts underway to identify potential victims and prevent future escalation of compromised networks https://www.zdnet.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@mcfaul
Michael McFaul
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It's time we get serious about cybersecurity. @alexstamos has some ideas: https://twitter.com/...
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@alexstamos
Alex Stamos
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Three initial ideas for how Congress and the Biden Administration can respond to the still-developing Russian breach of much of the US Government. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...