“These actors are highly skilled and have deep technical knowledge of the Pulse Secure product,” Carmakal said. The attackers who exploited Pulse Secure are extremely sophisticated and used their access to steal account credentials and other sensitive data belonging to victim organizations, said Charles Carmakal, FireEye’s senior vice president. Emergency directives are rare and are used for incidents that have a high potential for compromise of agency systems. The US Department of Homeland Security confirmed the intrusions in its own public advisory Tuesday, urging network administrators to run a special tool designed to scan for signs of compromise and to install an emergency workaround published by Ivanti, the owner of Pulse Secure.ĭHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ordered federal civilian agencies on Tuesday to take several steps to reduce risk from the suspected hack.ĬISA issued an “ emergency directive” instructing all federal civilian agencies to determine how many instances of the product they have, run an “integrity tool” to check for issues, install updates and submit a report to CISA by Friday.
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