{"id":3183,"date":"2024-02-02T14:58:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/feds-given-deadline-to-disconnect-vulnerable-software\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T14:58:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:58:28","slug":"feds-given-deadline-to-disconnect-vulnerable-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/feds-given-deadline-to-disconnect-vulnerable-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds given deadline to disconnect vulnerable software"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal agencies have less than 24 hours to disconnect Ivanti VPN appliances due to the risk of malicious exploitation<\/a> caused by multiple software flaws.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA blasted out an updated emergency directive ordering U.S. government agencies to act “as soon as possible and no later than 11:59 PM on Friday February 2, 2024.” Agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice, must disconnect all Ivanti VPN appliances because hackers may exploit the vulnerabilities and compromise agency information systems.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The vulnerabilities in these products pose significant, unacceptable risks to the security of the federal civilian enterprise. As America\u2019s cyber defense agency and the operational lead for federal civilian cybersecurity, we must take urgent action to reduce risks to the federal systems upon which Americans depend,” said CISA Director Jen Easterly. “Even as federal agencies take urgent action in response to this Directive, we know that these risks extend to every organization and sector using these products. We strongly urge all organizations to adopt the actions outlined in this Directive.”<\/p>\n

CHINESE HACKERS PREPARING TO \u2018WREAK HAVOC\u2019 ON AMERICAN CITIZENS, COMMUNITIES, FBI DIRECTOR WARNS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

CISA’s emergency directive comes on the heels of FBI Director Christopher Wray’s warning that China-backed hackers are looking to “wreak havoc” on U.S. communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“There has been far too little public focus on the fact that PRC [People\u2019s Republic of China] hackers<\/a> are targeting our critical infrastructure \u2013 our water treatment plants, our electrical grid, our oil and natural gas pipelines, our transportation systems. And the risk that poses to every American requires our attention now,” Wray told lawmakers Wednesday at a hearing on Capitol Hill. \u00a0<\/p>\n

CHINESE HACKERS OUTNUMBER FBI CYBER PERSONNEL \u2018BY AT LEAST 50 TO 1,\u2019 WRAY TESTIFIES<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

“China\u2019s hackers are positioning on American infrastructure in preparation to wreak havoc and cause real-world harm to American citizens and communities, if and when China decides the time has come to strike,” he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The FBI recently shut down an effort by Chinese hackers to infiltrate hundreds of routers to target critical infrastructure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The hackers, known as “Volt Typhoon<\/a>,” used privately owned SOHO routers infected with the “KV Botnet” malware to conceal the Chinese origin of hacking activities targeting U.S. and other foreign victims, according to the Justice Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The Justice Department has disrupted a PRC-backed hacking group that attempted to target America\u2019s critical infrastructure utilizing a botnet,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement Wednesday. “The United States will continue to dismantle malicious cyber operations \u2013 including those sponsored by foreign governments \u2013 that undermine the security of the American people.”<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital’s Greg Norman contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Federal agencies have less than 24 hours to disconnect Ivanti VPN appliances due to the risk of malicious exploitation caused by multiple software flaws.\u00a0 On Wednesday, U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA blasted out an updated emergency directive ordering U.S. government agencies to act “as soon as possible and no later than 11:59 PM on Friday February … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}