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Chinese Hackers Targeting U.S. Defense Industry With Pulse Secure 0-Day Flaw This year, there have been several cybersecurity incidents, such as the Microsoft Exchange issue, across numerous industries and government organizations. It appears that the defense industry is now being targeted by at least two China-linked hacking groups who are leveraging Pulse Secure VPN devices from IT company Ivanti. Phil Richard, CSO at Pulse Secure, posted a security update today reporting that the company h...

China-linked hackers used Pulse Secure flaw to target U.S. defense industry - researchers By Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) -At least two groups of China-linked hackers have spent months using a previously undisclosed vulnerability in American networking devices to spy on the U.S. defense industry, researchers and the devices manufacturer said Tuesday. Utah-based IT company Ivanti said https://blog.pulsesecure.net/pulse-connect-secure-security-update in a state...

Check Point Taps VMware Vet Geoff Waters To Run Americas Sales Check Point also made several moves in its partner organization, promoting Nisha Holt to Americas channel chief and bringing in iboss’ Erick Foy and Pulse Secure’s Coletta Vigh for other leadership roles. By Michael Novinson April 20, 2021, 06:30 AM EDT Check Point Software Technologies has put in place a quartet of seasoned go-to-market executives to fuel growth in the Americas and across the c...

By Syndicated Content By Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least two groups of China-linked hackers have spent months using a previously undisclosed vulnerability in American networking devices to spy on the U.S. defense industry, researchers and the devices manufacturer said Tuesday. Utah-based IT company Ivanti said in a statement that the hackers took advantage of the flaw in its Pulse Connect Secure suite of virtual private networking devices to break...

IT software firm Ivanti, which acquired Pulse Secure late last year, today confirmed attackers have targeted a "limited number of customers" using Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) appliances. It has been working with Mandiant, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and others to respond to the exploits, which target three known vulnerabilities and a zero-day. The three known flaws include CVE-2020-8243, CVE-2020-8260, and CVE-2019-11510, which CISA recently warned is amon...

By Syndicated Content By Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) -At least two groups of China-linked hackers have spent months using a previously undisclosed vulnerability in American networking devices to spy on the U.S. defense industry, researchers and the devices manufacturer said Tuesday. Utah-based IT company Ivanti said https://blog.pulsesecure.net/pulse-connect-secure-security-update in a statement that the hackers took advantage of the flaw in its Pulse Connec...

China-linked hackers used Pulse Secure flaw to target U.S. defense industry - researchers Reuters 1 hr ago By Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) - At least two groups of China-linked hackers have spent months using a previously undisclosed vulnerability in American networking devices to spy on the U.S. defense industry, researchers and the devices manufacturer said Tuesday. Utah-based IT company Ivanti said in a statement that the hackers took advantage of the ...

The Biden administration issued sanctions against six Russian technology companies for helping the country’s intelligence agencies carry out malicious cyber activities including the SolarWinds hack. The private and state-owned companies were accused Thursday by the U.S. Department of the Treasury of enabling the Russian Intelligence Services’ cyber activities. The six companies support the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), Main Intelligence Directive (GRU) and Foreign Intelligence Ser...

The Russians are coming for these devices, how a games company was hacked and be careful with internet searches. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday April 16th. I'm Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. IT leaders can have a hard time deciding which hardware and software to patch first. The U.S. […]

News of ransomware activity first emerged on March 12, only 10 days after Microsoft released the patches, and it arrived as researchers noticed an uptick in ransomware attacks following the disclosure of the Exchange Server zero-days. In the week ending March 30, the number of attacks involving the Exchange Server flaws had tripled to more than 50,000 around the world.  Check Point Research reports the industries most targeted in these attacks include government and military, manufacturing, an...