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Suspected state-backed Chinese hackers exploited widely used networking devices to spy for months on dozens of high-value government, defence industry and financial sector targets in the US and Europe, according to prominent cybersecurity firm FireEye.
And Tokyo police are investigating cyber attacks on some 200 Japanese companies and research organisations, including the country’s space agency, by a hacking group believed to be linked to the Chinese military, Japan’s government said.
FireEye said on Tuesday it believed two hacking groups linked to China broke into several targets through Pulse Connect Secure devices, which numerous companies and governments use for secure remote access to their networks.
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Dozens of defense companies, government agencies, and financial organizations in America and abroad appear to have been compromised by China via vulnerabilities in their Pulse Connect Secure VPN appliances – including a zero-day flaw that won t be patched until next month.
On Tuesday, IT software supplier Ivanti, the parent of Pulse Secure, issued a wake-up call to its customers by revealing it looks as though select clients were compromised via their encrypted gateways. There is a new issue, discovered this month, that impacted a very limited number of customers, said Phil Richards, chief security officer at Pulse Secure, in a memo to the world. The team worked quickly to provide mitigations directly to the limited number of impacted customers that remediates the risk to their system.