One of the organizations compromised through a recently-discovered flaw in Ivanti products was, ironically enough, the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
Confirmation of the breach came from CISA itself, as well as from an anonymous source “with knowledge of the situation”, with a CISA spokesperson telling The Record the organization “identified activity indicating the exploitation of vulnerabilities in Ivanti products the agency uses”. “The impact was limited to two systems, which we immediately took offline. We continue to upgrade and modernize our systems, and there is no operational impact at this time,” the spokesperson said.
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Source: TechRadar
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