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Over 1,700 Ivanti Connect Secure VPN devices worldwide have been compromised by attackers exploiting two zero-days with no patches currently available. Organizations using Ivanti Connect Secure VPN devices were advised to implement temporary mitigations as soon as possible, check for evidence of compromise, and to boot attackers out of their systems in case they had been breached.
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Two zero-day bugs in Ivanti products were likely under attack by cyberspies as early as December, according to Mandiant's threat intel team. The software biz disclosed the vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure - the VPN server appliance previously known as Pulse Connect Secure - and its Policy Secure gateways on Wednesday.
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...
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The administrator behind the notorious BreachForums hacking forum has been arrested again for breaking pretrial release conditions, including using an unmonitored computer and a VPN. The BreachForums admin, Conor Fitzpatrick, was arrested on March 15th, when he openly admitted without a lawyer present that he was a threat actor known as Pompourin, who was the admin of the defunct BreachForums hacking forum. Fitzpatrick was released one day later on a $300,000 bond and under various pretrial conditions, including not visiting the BreachForums website or having contact with any BreachForums users or co-conspirators unless supervised by counsel.
The cybercriminal behind BreachForums was this week arrested for violating the terms of his pretrial release and will now be held in custody until his sentencing hearing. Fitzpatrick's sentencing hearing was originally scheduled for November 17, 2023, but was pushed back at the request [PDF] of his legal representatives after a psycho-sexual expert said they were unable to complete their evaluation of Fitzpatrick in time for the hearing due to a large workload. It has now been moved to January 19 [PDF].
Three malicious Chrome extensions posing as VPN infected were downloaded 1.5 million times, acting as browser hijackers, cashback hack tools, and data stealers. ReasonLabs notified Google of its findings, and the tech giant removed the offending extensions from the Chrome Web Store, but only after those had amassed a total of 1.5 million downloads.
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