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Mass exploitation of Ivanti VPNs is infecting networks around the globe | Orgs that haven't acted yet should, even if it means suspending VPN services.


Orgs that haven't acted yet should, even if it means suspending VPN services.

Hackers suspected of working for the Chinese government are mass exploiting a pair of critical vulnerabilities that give them complete control of virtual private network appliances sold by Ivanti, researchers said. “We conducted a secondary scan on all Ivanti Connect Secure servers in our dataset and found 412 unique hosts with this backdoor, Censys researchers wrote. Advertisement “This directive is no surprise, considering the worldwide mass exploitation observed since Ivanti initially revealed the vulnerabilities on January 10,” Censys researchers wrote.

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