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Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week In Review edition for Friday April 23rd. From my studio in Toronto, I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. With me is guest analyst Terry Cutler of Montreal’s Cyology Labs. We’re going to take a deep dive into insider threats and what to do about them. But first a look at some of the top news from the past seven days: A ransomware group called REvil has given Apple a May 1st deadline to buy back product schematics it says were stolen from Apple’s Taiwan manufacturer. As proof of the theft the ...

China-linked hackers used VPN flaw to target US defense industry Written by Reuters - Cyber coding. At least two groups of China-linked hackers have spent months using a previously undisclosed vulnerability in American virtual private networking devices to spy on the US defense industry, researchers and the devices’ manufacturer said Tuesday. Utah-based IT company Ivanti said in a statement the hackers took advantage of the flaw in its Pulse Connect Secure suite to break into the systems of “a very limited number of customers.” Ivanti said that while mitigations were in place, a fix fo...

CISA Orders Agencies to Mitigate Pulse Secure VPN Risks Compliance Twitter Get Permission The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued an emergency directive requiring executive branch agencies to mitigate by Friday the risks posed by a zero-day vulnerability and three other recently patched flaws in Pulse Connect Secure VPN products. On Tuesday, Ivanti, the parent company of Pulse Secure, and the security firm FireEye warned that at least two nation-state attack groups, including one with links to China, were exploiting the vulnerability to target a range of victims...

Share An attack group potentially acting in the interests of the Chinese government has exploited vulnerabilities--including a zero day--in the widely deployed Pulse Connect Secure VPN appliance to compromise government agencies in the United States and Europe, as well as several dozen other organizations to gather credentials, steal sensitive data, and place webshells on targeted appliances to maintain persistence. Although researchers have not been able to pinpoint exactly when the attacks began, they have been ongoing for more than a year and could go back several years. Researchers at F...

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