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Search your first call to discover how SRM can help your business. Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWires Research Saturday.

I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking

down threats and vulnerabilities, solving some of the hard problems

of protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.

Thanks for joining us. So in November 2020 we were conducting an incident response engagement with the client and we were seeing that the threat actor was

interacting with an internet facing SolarWind server so we came clear that what we

was actually the supernova Workshop activity.

That's Mike McClellan. He's a director at Secure Works Counter Threat Unit.

The research we're discussing today is titled Supernova Web Shell Deployment linked to Spiral Threat Group. You can sense to glory.

Is this distorted something?

Feel it in your bone.

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