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NSA: Top 25 vulnerabilities actively abused by Chinese hackers
2020-10-20 11:20

The U.S. National Security Agency warns that Chinese state-sponsored hackers exploit 25 different vulnerabilities in attacks against U.S. organizations and interests.

As part of these attacks, the NSA has seen twenty-five publicly disclosed vulnerabilities exploited to gain access to networks, deploy malicious mobile apps, and spread laterally through a system while attackers steal sensitive data.

The NSA has categorized the vulnerabilities into different buckets to illustrate how they are being used in cyberattacks.

CVE-2019-11510 - A Pulse Secure VPN vulnerabilities that allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain access to VPN credentials.

As Chinese state-sponsored hackers have been seen utilizing a combination of these vulnerabilities, it is strongly advised that all administrators patch them as soon as possible.


News URL

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nsa-top-25-vulnerabilities-actively-abused-by-chinese-hackers/

Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2019-05-08 CVE-2019-11510 Path Traversal vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure 8.2/8.3/9.0
In Pulse Secure Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) 8.2 before 8.2R12.1, 8.3 before 8.3R7.1, and 9.0 before 9.0R3.4, an unauthenticated remote attacker can send a specially crafted URI to perform an arbitrary file reading vulnerability .
network
low complexity
ivanti CWE-22
critical
10.0