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Applying the Musk Oxen Strategy to Third‑Party Risk

🛡️ Third-party risk is a growing enterprise threat underscored by recent supply-chain attacks, including the June 2024 compromise of TeamViewer by APT29. The article argues organizations often depend on hundreds or thousands of vendors with limited transparency, immature security practices, and hidden subcontractors, which makes traditional vendor assessments a weak defense. It proposes the musk oxen strategy: collective intelligence-sharing, coordinated remediation support, and joint negotiation to strengthen common weak links and reduce systemic risk.
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SEC Drops Lawsuit Against SolarWinds After Years-long Probe

📰The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against SolarWinds and CISO Timothy G. Brown, filing a joint motion to dismiss on November 20, 2025. The October 2023 complaint alleged fraud, internal control failures, and misleading disclosures tied to the late-2020 supply-chain compromise attributed to APT29. Many allegations were rejected by the SDNY in July 2024 as relying on hindsight. SolarWinds' CEO said the company emerges stronger, more secure, and better prepared.
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Amazon Disrupts APT29 Campaign Targeting Microsoft 365

🔒 Amazon disrupted an operation attributed to the Russian state-sponsored group APT29 that used watering-hole compromises to target Microsoft 365 accounts. The attackers injected obfuscated JavaScript into legitimate sites to redirect roughly 10% of visitors to fake Cloudflare verification pages and then into a malicious Microsoft device code authentication flow. Amazon isolated attacker EC2 instances and worked with Cloudflare and Microsoft to take down identified domains; the campaign did not affect Amazon's infrastructure.
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Amazon Thwarts APT29 Watering Hole Targeting Microsoft

🔒 Amazon’s threat intelligence team disrupted a watering hole attack attributed to the Russian state‑linked group APT29 that attempted to abuse Microsoft device code authentication flows. Compromised websites injected JavaScript that redirected about 10% of visitors to attacker-controlled domains mimicking Cloudflare verification pages. Amazon reported no AWS service compromise; attackers used evasion techniques and quickly rotated infrastructure.
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Amazon Disrupts APT29 Watering-Hole Device Code Scam

🛡️ Amazon says its security team detected and disrupted an opportunistic watering-hole campaign attributed to APT29 that redirected visitors from compromised sites to attacker-controlled domains mimicking Cloudflare verification pages. The threat used the Microsoft device code authentication flow to trick users into authorizing attacker-controlled devices. Amazon observed multiple evasion techniques and continued tracking as the actor migrated infrastructure.
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Amazon Disrupts APT29 Watering Hole Campaign Targeting Users

🔒 Amazon's threat intelligence team identified and disrupted a watering hole campaign conducted by APT29, a group linked to Russia’s SVR. The actor compromised legitimate websites and injected obfuscated JavaScript to redirect a subset of visitors to attacker-controlled pages that mimicked Cloudflare verification. The campaign aimed to abuse Microsoft's device code authentication flow to trick users into authorizing attacker-controlled devices; Amazon isolated affected EC2 instances and coordinated with partners to disrupt infrastructure and share intelligence.
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