SolarWinds Corp. SWI,
said Thursday it has released updates in response to the “SUPERNOVA” malware, which the company said was deployed by exploiting a vulnerability in its Orion platform. Shares of the IT management software company are up 0.4% on Thursday during premarket trading. The stock was down 32% from Dec. 11 to Wednesday, following news of an advanced and devastating hack believed to be linked to a Russian group. SolarWinds said it has delivered two “hotfix updates” that include security enhancements, including enhancements designed to prevent certain versions of its Orion Platform products from being exploited in a SUPERNOVA attack. The stock lost 16.4% in the past three months to Wednesday, while the S&P 500 SPX,
has gained 13.7%.