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Chinedu Egonu

Solutions Engineer

Chinedu Egonu is a solutions engineer within the enterprise division at Akamai focused on Enterprise Security, cloud migration, and digital transformation through Zero Trust. His background is in mobile wireless technologies having worked at Cisco and Benu networks. When he is not working, you can find him watching or playing soccer, or figuring out the next place in the world to visit.

Posts by Chinedu Egonu

Akamai Blog | SolarWinds Hack and the Case of DNS Security

February 16, 2021Chinedu Egonu

It's not news that some of the top government agencies and companies in the world were victims of the SolarWinds attack. At this point, I can say it's the reason I didn't have a smoother transition back into work-life following a long vacation. As I understand it, the breaches happened after malicious code was inserted into a software patch that was downloaded by the companies and agencies. The installation of the patch executed malicious code, called SUNBURST, which created an entry point for other malicious codes (TEARDROP/RAINDROP). These additional codes were used to allow attackers to move laterally within the network and exfiltrate sensitive customer information to a public command and control server.

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