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By   Brad D. Williams on May 06, 2021 at 2:31 PM Substation at Idaho National Laboratory WASHINGTON: The NSA is spotlighting the importance of conducting risk-based security reviews of operational technologies (OT) across critical infrastructure, including defense. “A significant shift in how [OT] are viewed, evaluated, and secured within the US is needed to prevent malicious cyber actors from executing successful, and potentially damaging, cyber effects,” the guidance says. OT include hardware and software that enable infrastructure physical components to function, such as circuit br...

minute read Share this article: The security flaw tracked as CVE-2021-22893 is being used by at least two APTs likely linked to China, to attack U.S. defense targets among others. Pulse Secure has rushed a fix for a critical zero-day security vulnerability in its Connect Secure VPN devices, which has been exploited by nation-state actors to launch cyberattacks against U.S. defense, finance and government targets, as well as victims in Europe. Pulse Secure also patched three other security bugs, two of them also critical RCE vulnerabilities. Join Threatpost for “Fortifying Your...

Threat actors are targeting one newly discovered and three previously known vulnerabilities in Pulse Connect Secure enterprise VPNs, according to a CISA emergency directive and alert, as well as blog posts by FireEye and Ivanti. "There is no indication the identified backdoors were introduced through a supply chain compromise of the company's network or software deployment process," FireEye noted. By   Brad D. Williams on April 20, 2021 at 9:00 PM

Get Permission A new zero-day vulnerability in Ivanti's Pulse Connect Secure products is being combined with recently patched flaws to attack U.S. federal agencies. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Ivanti and FireEye report that U.S. federal agencies and other entities have been compromised by two attack groups. "Their primary goals are maintaining long-term access to networks, collecting credentials, and stealing proprietary data," says Charles Carmakal, senior vice president and CTO with FireEye Mandiant. "We believe that multiple cyberespionage groups are usin...