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至少第三次自今年年初以来,美国政府正在调查一个黑客对联邦机构在特朗普执政期间开始,但最近才发现的,据美国高级官员和私人部门网络拥护者。
它是最新的所谓的供应链网络攻击,强调如何复杂,政府支持的组织往往是针对脆弱的软件由第三方作为垫脚石敏感政府和企业计算机网络。
新政府违反涉及一个流行的虚拟专用网(VPN)称为脉冲连接安全,黑客得以进入为客户使用它。
十多个联邦机构在他们的网络上运行脉冲安全,根据公共契约的记录。上周紧急网络安全指令要求机构扫描他们的系统相关的妥协和报告。
结果,本周周五收集和分析,表明至少五个联邦文职机构潜在的漏洞,马特·哈特曼说,一位高级官员与美国网络安全基础设施安全机构。
“这是一个传统的经济间谍活动和一些元素组合盗窃,”知情人士说,一个网络安全顾问。“我们已经证实数据漏出穿越无数的环境。”
脉冲的制造商安全,犹他州的软件公司Ivanti,表示,它将提供一个补丁来修复这个问题,周一,两周后首次公开。只有非常有限的客户系统已经渗透,它补充说。
在过去的两个月,中钢协美国联邦调查局与脉冲工作安全、黑客的受害者将入侵者和发现其他证据,说另一位不愿透露姓名的美国高级官员,但应对黑客。联邦调查局司法部和国家安全局拒绝置评。
美国政府调查脉冲安全活动仍处于初期阶段,但美国高级官员说,他还说范围、影响和归因尚不清楚。
安全研究人员在美国网络安全公司FireEye和另一家公司,拒绝透露姓名,说他们已经看了很多黑客组织,包括一个精英团队与中国,利用2019年以来新缺陷和其他几个人喜欢它。
上周在一份声明中,中国大使馆发言人刘Pengyu说,中国“坚决反对和打击一切形式的网络攻击,”形容FireEye的指控是“不负责任和恶意的。”
使用vpn,为远程连接到公司网络创建加密隧道,一路飙升期间COVID-19大流行。然而与VPN使用的增长也有相关的风险。
“这是另一个例子在最近的一份网络参与者的目标模式漏洞在广泛使用VPN产品作为我们国家很大程度上仍在偏远和混合动力的工作姿势,”哈特曼说。
三个网络安全顾问参与应对黑客对路透表示,受害者名单加权对美国到目前为止包括国防承包商,平民政府机构、太阳能公司、电信公司和金融机构。
顾问也表示,他们意识到不到100受害者到目前为止它们之间相结合,提出一个相当狭隘的黑客。
分析师认为,恶意的行动始于2019年左右,利用老缺陷脉冲安全和独立的产品由网络安全公司Fortinet之前调用新的漏洞。
哈特曼说,民用机构黑客可以追溯到至少2020年6月。
黑客供应
大西洋委员会最近的一份报告,102年华盛顿智库,研究供应链窃听事件,发现他们过去三年。三十的攻击来自政府支持的团体,主要在俄罗斯和中国,报告说。
脉冲安全响应之际,政府仍面临着其他三个网络攻击的影响。
第一个被称为SolarWinds黑客,黑客的怀疑俄罗斯政府征用该公司的网络管理程序来洞穴内9个联邦机构。
一个疲软的微软的邮件服务器软件,名叫交换,利用一组不同的中国黑客,还需要大规模的应对工作,尽管最终没有影响联邦网络,据美国官员。
然后一个弱点在编程工具制造商被称为Codecov让成千上万的消费者暴露在他们的编码环境,该公司本月公布。
一些政府机构的客户曾Codecov黑客采取进一步的凭证访问代码库或其他数据,据一位知情的调查。Codecov, FBI和美国国土安全部拒绝置评。
美国计划解决其中的一些系统性问题与即将到来的行政命令,要求机构来识别他们的最重要的软件,促进“材料清单”,要求一定程度的数字安全产品卖给政府。
“我们认为这是最有效的方法把成本强加于这些敌人,使其更加困难,”美国高级官员说。
它是最新的所谓的供应链网络攻击,强调如何复杂,政府支持的组织往往是针对脆弱的软件由第三方作为垫脚石敏感政府和企业计算机网络。
新政府违反涉及一个流行的虚拟专用网(VPN)称为脉冲连接安全,黑客得以进入为客户使用它。
结果,本周周五收集和分析,表明至少五个联邦文职机构潜在的漏洞,马特·哈特曼说,一位高级官员与美国网络安全基础设施安全机构。
“这是一个传统的经济间谍活动和一些元素组合盗窃,”知情人士说,一个网络安全顾问。“我们已经证实数据漏出穿越无数的环境。”
脉冲的制造商安全,犹他州的软件公司Ivanti,表示,它将提供一个补丁来修复这个问题,周一,两周后首次公开。只有非常有限的客户系统已经渗透,它补充说。
在过去的两个月,中钢协美国联邦调查局与脉冲工作安全、黑客的受害者将入侵者和发现其他证据,说另一位不愿透露姓名的美国高级官员,但应对黑客。联邦调查局司法部和国家安全局拒绝置评。
安全研究人员在美国网络安全公司FireEye和另一家公司,拒绝透露姓名,说他们已经看了很多黑客组织,包括一个精英团队与中国,利用2019年以来新缺陷和其他几个人喜欢它。
上周在一份声明中,中国大使馆发言人刘Pengyu说,中国“坚决反对和打击一切形式的网络攻击,”形容FireEye的指控是“不负责任和恶意的。”
使用vpn,为远程连接到公司网络创建加密隧道,一路飙升期间COVID-19大流行。然而与VPN使用的增长也有相关的风险。
“这是另一个例子在最近的一份网络参与者的目标模式漏洞在广泛使用VPN产品作为我们国家很大程度上仍在偏远和混合动力的工作姿势,”哈特曼说。
三个网络安全顾问参与应对黑客对路透表示,受害者名单加权对美国到目前为止包括国防承包商,平民政府机构、太阳能公司、电信公司和金融机构。
顾问也表示,他们意识到不到100受害者到目前为止它们之间相结合,提出一个相当狭隘的黑客。
分析师认为,恶意的行动始于2019年左右,利用老缺陷脉冲安全和独立的产品由网络安全公司Fortinet之前调用新的漏洞。
哈特曼说,民用机构黑客可以追溯到至少2020年6月。
黑客供应
大西洋委员会最近的一份报告,102年华盛顿智库,研究供应链窃听事件,发现他们过去三年。三十的攻击来自政府支持的团体,主要在俄罗斯和中国,报告说。
脉冲安全响应之际,政府仍面临着其他三个网络攻击的影响。
第一个被称为SolarWinds黑客,黑客的怀疑俄罗斯政府征用该公司的网络管理程序来洞穴内9个联邦机构。
一个疲软的微软的邮件服务器软件,名叫交换,利用一组不同的中国黑客,还需要大规模的应对工作,尽管最终没有影响联邦网络,据美国官员。
然后一个弱点在编程工具制造商被称为Codecov让成千上万的消费者暴露在他们的编码环境,该公司本月公布。
一些政府机构的客户曾Codecov黑客采取进一步的凭证访问代码库或其他数据,据一位知情的调查。Codecov, FBI和美国国土安全部拒绝置评。
美国计划解决其中的一些系统性问题与即将到来的行政命令,要求机构来识别他们的最重要的软件,促进“材料清单”,要求一定程度的数字安全产品卖给政府。
“我们认为这是最有效的方法把成本强加于这些敌人,使其更加困难,”美国高级官员说。
For at least the third time since the beginning of this year, the U.S. government is investigating a hack against federal agencies that began during the Trump administration but was only recently discovered, according to senior U.S. officials and private sector cyber defenders<\/a>.
It is the latest so-called supply chain cyberattack, highlighting how sophisticated, often government-backed groups are targeting vulnerable software built by third parties as a stepping-stone to sensitive government and corporate computer networks.
The new government breaches involve a popular virtual private network (VPN) known as Pulse Connect Secure, which hackers were able to break into as customers used it.
It is the latest so-called supply chain cyberattack, highlighting how sophisticated, often government-backed groups are targeting vulnerable software built by third parties as a stepping-stone to sensitive government and corporate computer networks.
The new government breaches involve a popular virtual private network (VPN) known as Pulse Connect Secure, which hackers were able to break into as customers used it.
<\/div><\/div>More than a dozen federal agencies run Pulse Secure on their networks, according to public contract records. An emergency cybersecurity directive last week demanded that agencies scan their systems for related compromises and report back.
The results, collected on Friday and analyzed this week, show evidence of potential breaches in at least five federal civilian agencies, said Matt Hartman, a senior official with the U.S. Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency.
\"This is a combination of traditional espionage with some element of economic theft,\" said one cybersecurity consultant familiar with the matter. \"We've already confirmed data exfiltration across numerous environments.\"
The maker of Pulse Secure, Utah-based software company Ivanti, said it expected to provide a patch to fix the problem by this Monday, two weeks after it was first publicized. Only a \"very limited number of customer systems\" had been penetrated, it added.
Over the last two months, CISA and the FBI<\/a> have been working with Pulse Secure and victims of the hack to kick out the intruders and uncover other evidence, said another senior U.S. official who declined to be named but is responding to the hacks. The FBI, Justice Department<\/a> and National Security Agency<\/a> declined to comment.
The results, collected on Friday and analyzed this week, show evidence of potential breaches in at least five federal civilian agencies, said Matt Hartman, a senior official with the U.S. Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency.
\"This is a combination of traditional espionage with some element of economic theft,\" said one cybersecurity consultant familiar with the matter. \"We've already confirmed data exfiltration across numerous environments.\"
The maker of Pulse Secure, Utah-based software company Ivanti, said it expected to provide a patch to fix the problem by this Monday, two weeks after it was first publicized. Only a \"very limited number of customer systems\" had been penetrated, it added.
Over the last two months, CISA and the FBI<\/a> have been working with Pulse Secure and victims of the hack to kick out the intruders and uncover other evidence, said another senior U.S. official who declined to be named but is responding to the hacks. The FBI, Justice Department<\/a> and National Security Agency<\/a> declined to comment.
<\/div><\/div>The U.S. government's investigation into the Pulse Secure activity is still in its early stages, said the senior U.S. official, who added the scope, impact and attribution remain unclear.
Security researchers at U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye and another firm, which declined to be named, say they've watched multiple hacking groups, including an elite team they associate with China, exploiting the new flaw and several others like it since 2019.
In a statement last week, Chinese Embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu said China \"firmly opposes and cracks down on all forms of cyber attacks,\" describing FireEye's allegations as \"irresponsible and ill-intentioned.\"
The use of VPNs, which create encrypted tunnels for connecting remotely to corporate networks, has skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet with the growth in VPN usage so too has the associated risk.
\"This is another example in a recent pattern of cyber actors targeting vulnerabilities<\/a> in widely used VPN products as our nation largely remains in remote and hybrid work postures,\" said Hartman.
Three cybersecurity consultants involved in responding to the hacks told Reuters that the victim list is weighted toward the United States and so far includes defense contractors, civilian government agencies, solar energy companies, telecommunications firms, and financial institutions.
The consultants also said they were aware of less than 100 combined victims so far between them, suggesting a fairly narrow focus by the hackers.
Analysts believe the malicious operation began around 2019 and exploited older flaws in Pulse Secure and separate products made by cybersecurity firm Fortinet before invoking the new vulnerabilities.
Hartman said the civilian agency hacks date back to at least June 2020.
HACKING THE SUPPLY<\/strong>
A recent report by the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank, studied 102 supply chain hacking incidents and found they surged the last three years. Thirty of the attacks came from government-backed groups, primarily in Russia and China, the report said.
The Pulse Secure response comes as the government is still grappling with the fallout of three other cyberattacks.
The first is known as the SolarWinds hack, in which suspected Russian government hackers commandeered the company's network management program to burrow inside nine federal agencies.
A weakness in Microsoft<\/a>'s email server software, named Exchange, exploited by a different group of Chinese hackers, also required a massive response effort, although there was ultimately no impact to federal networks, according to U.S. officials.
Then a weakness at a maker of programming tools called Codecov left thousands of customers exposed inside their coding environments, the company disclosed this month.
Some government agencies were among the customers which had the Codecov hackers take credentials for further access to code repositories or other data, according to a person briefed on the investigation. Codecov, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security declined to comment on that case.
The U.S. plans to address some of these systemic issues with an upcoming executive order that will require agencies to identify their most critical software and promote a \"bill of materials\" that demands a certain level of digital security across products sold to the government.
\"We think [this is] the most impactful way to really impose costs on these adversaries and make it that much harder,\" said the senior U.S. official.
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Security researchers at U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye and another firm, which declined to be named, say they've watched multiple hacking groups, including an elite team they associate with China, exploiting the new flaw and several others like it since 2019.
In a statement last week, Chinese Embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu said China \"firmly opposes and cracks down on all forms of cyber attacks,\" describing FireEye's allegations as \"irresponsible and ill-intentioned.\"
The use of VPNs, which create encrypted tunnels for connecting remotely to corporate networks, has skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet with the growth in VPN usage so too has the associated risk.
\"This is another example in a recent pattern of cyber actors targeting vulnerabilities<\/a> in widely used VPN products as our nation largely remains in remote and hybrid work postures,\" said Hartman.
Three cybersecurity consultants involved in responding to the hacks told Reuters that the victim list is weighted toward the United States and so far includes defense contractors, civilian government agencies, solar energy companies, telecommunications firms, and financial institutions.
The consultants also said they were aware of less than 100 combined victims so far between them, suggesting a fairly narrow focus by the hackers.
Analysts believe the malicious operation began around 2019 and exploited older flaws in Pulse Secure and separate products made by cybersecurity firm Fortinet before invoking the new vulnerabilities.
Hartman said the civilian agency hacks date back to at least June 2020.
HACKING THE SUPPLY<\/strong>
A recent report by the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank, studied 102 supply chain hacking incidents and found they surged the last three years. Thirty of the attacks came from government-backed groups, primarily in Russia and China, the report said.
The Pulse Secure response comes as the government is still grappling with the fallout of three other cyberattacks.
The first is known as the SolarWinds hack, in which suspected Russian government hackers commandeered the company's network management program to burrow inside nine federal agencies.
A weakness in Microsoft<\/a>'s email server software, named Exchange, exploited by a different group of Chinese hackers, also required a massive response effort, although there was ultimately no impact to federal networks, according to U.S. officials.
Then a weakness at a maker of programming tools called Codecov left thousands of customers exposed inside their coding environments, the company disclosed this month.
Some government agencies were among the customers which had the Codecov hackers take credentials for further access to code repositories or other data, according to a person briefed on the investigation. Codecov, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security declined to comment on that case.
The U.S. plans to address some of these systemic issues with an upcoming executive order that will require agencies to identify their most critical software and promote a \"bill of materials\" that demands a certain level of digital security across products sold to the government.
\"We think [this is] the most impactful way to really impose costs on these adversaries and make it that much harder,\" said the senior U.S. official.
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