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Those whose job it is to enable command and control (C2) for commanders were confronted in 2014 with a sobering demonstration that the way the Navy and Marine Corps have been trained could get people killed in the next fight. In 2014, Ukrainian separatists supported by irregular Russian forces used electronic warfare (EW) to identify Ukrainian positions, disrupt communications, and ultimately kill significant numbers of Ukrainian soldiers. This has resulted in changes to the way the Marine Corps has conducted recent large-scale exercises, in which the use of EW and counter-EW technology has been a central theme.
Marine Air Ground Task Force Warfighting Exercise (MWX) 5-20 incorporated these changes into a force-on-force exercise that eventually highlighted some concerns about them.
CISA said it was issuing the directive amid evidence of “ongoing exploitation” of the vulnerabilities occurring, adding the activity started as far back as June 2020 and has claimed numerous victims.
Specifically, CISA said the vulnerabilities have so far been exploited to result in compromises of U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure entities and private sector organizations alike.
CISA explained that successful exploitation of the Pulse Connect Secure vulnerabilities could enable a hacker to gain persistent access into a system where the software has been installed.
“CISA has determined that this exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure products poses an unacceptable risk to Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies and requires emergency action,” the agency stated.
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The vulnerabilities led to the compromise of government agencies early last summer and, together with a newly disclosed flaw, continue to be exploited.
Federal agencies have until 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time April 23 to implement an emergency directive the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued on vulnerabilities affecting virtual private networking service Pulse Secure Connect, which have already compromised federal agencies.
“The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of compromises affecting U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure entities, and other private sector organizations by a cyber threat actor or actors beginning in June 2020 or earlier related to vulnerabilities in certain Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure products,” reads an alert accompanying the di
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