"CISA Urges Immediate Action on Ivanti Zero-Day Exploits for Federal Agencies"

CISA has issued an emergency directive to Federal agencies to address actively exploited zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure products, allowing threat actors to execute arbitrary commands and compromise information systems. Ivanti is expected to release an update next week, but has provided a temporary workaround. Organizations are urged to apply mitigations, run integrity checks, and take additional security measures. Cybersecurity firms have observed attacks exploiting the flaws, with as many as 2,100 devices compromised globally. The initial attack wave has been attributed to a Chinese nation-state group, with indications of opportunistic exploitation for financial gain by other threat actors.