The US government agency responsible for cybersecurity and infrastructure protection across all levels of the United States government - the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has been hacked.

A month ago, CISA identified activity indicating the exploitation of vulnerabilities in Ivanti products that it uses. Now, CISA itself has fallen victim to a cyberattack involving Ivanti products. An anonymous source reported that the compromised systems were the Infrastructure Protection (IP) Gateway, which houses critical information about the interdependency of U.S. infrastructure, and the Chemical Security Assessment Tool (CSAT), which houses private sector chemical security plans. The compromised systems have been immediately taken offline.

CISA has not yet blamed the cyberattack to any group or nation-state. However, in the recent past hackers suspected of working for the Chinese government had been reportedly exploiting Ivanti product vulnerabilities. Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page