Nation-State Actors Exploited Ivanti Bugs to Hit MITRE

The MITRE Corporation on Friday disclosed a breach impacting one of its collaborative networks used for research, development and prototyping. MITRE said in January attackers had exploited two known Ivanti Connect Secure vulnerabilities in order to deploy sophisticated backdoors and harvest credentials.

MITRE, a nonprofit organization that manages federally funded research and development centers supporting government agencies in cybersecurity, defense, homeland security and more, is only the latest high-profile organization to be hit via Ivanti’s vulnerabilities in its Connect Secure …

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