Security News > 2024 > January > Nation-State Actors Weaponize Ivanti VPN Zero-Days, Deploying 5 Malware Families
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2024-01-12 13:53
As many as five different malware families were deployed by suspected nation-state actors as part of post-exploitation activities leveraging two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) VPN appliances since early December 2023. "These families allow the threat actors to circumvent authentication and provide backdoor access to these devices," Mandiant said in an
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