mitigations

  1. CISA Warns of Vulnerabilities in Industrial Control Systems: Mitigation Insights

    On October 1, 2024, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) dropped a significant bombshell by releasing two crucial advisories concerning vulnerabilities found in industrial control systems (ICS). Always vigilant in protecting national infrastructure, CISA aims to provide...
  2. AA21-291A: BlackMatter Ransomware

    Original release date: October 18, 2021 Summary Actions You Can Take Now to Protect Against BlackMatter Ransomware • Implement and enforce backup and restoration policies and procedures. • Use Link Removed. • Use Link Removed. • Implement network segmentation and traversal monitoring. Note...
  3. AA21-259A: APT Actors Exploiting Newly Identified Vulnerability in ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus

    Original release date: September 16, 2021 Summary This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework, Version 8. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for referenced threat actor tactics and for techniques. This joint advisory is...
  4. AA21-229A: BadAlloc Vulnerability Affecting BlackBerry QNX RTOS

    Original release date: August 17, 2021 Summary On August 17, 2021, BlackBerry publicly disclosed that its QNX Real Time Operating System (RTOS) is affected by a Link Removed vulnerability—CVE-2021-22156. BadAlloc is a collection of vulnerabilities affecting multiple RTOSs and supporting...
  5. AA21-201A: Chinese Gas Pipeline Intrusion Campaign, 2011 to 2013

    Original release date: July 20, 2021 Summary This Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework, Version 9. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. Note: CISA released technical information...
  6. AA21-148A: Sophisticated Spearphishing Campaign Targets Government Organizations, IGOs, and NGOs

    Original release date: May 28, 2021 Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are responding to a spearphishing campaign targeting government organizations, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), and non-governmental...
  7. VIDEO AA21-131A: DarkSide Ransomware: Best Practices for Preventing Business Disruption from Ransomware Attacks

    Original release date: May 11, 2021 Summary This Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework, Version 9. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...
  8. AA21-110A: Exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities

    Original release date: April 20, 2021 Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of compromises affecting U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure entities, and other private sector organizations by a cyber threat actor—or actors—beginning in June 2020...
  9. AA21-062A: Mitigate Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerabilities

    Original release date: March 3, 2021 Summary Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA) partners have observed active exploitation of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server products. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute...
  10. AA21-042A: Compromise of U.S. Water Treatment Facility

    Original release date: February 11, 2021 Summary On February 5, 2021, unidentified cyber actors obtained unauthorized access to the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system at a U.S. drinking water treatment plant. The unidentified actors used the SCADA system’s software to...
  11. AA20-345A: Cyber Actors Target K-12 Distance Learning Education to Cause Disruptions and Steal Data

    Original release date: December 10, 2020<br/><h3>Summary</h3><p>This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory was coauthored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC).</p>...
  12. AA20-304A: Iranian Advanced Persistent Threat Actor Identified Obtaining Voter Registration Data

    Original release date: October 30, 2020 Summary This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) version 7 framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise version 7 for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. This joint cybersecurity advisory...
  13. AA20-275A: Potential for China Cyber Response to Heightened U.S.–China Tensions

    Original release date: October 1, 2020 Summary This Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise framework for all referenced threat actor techniques. In light of heightened tensions between the United States and...
  14. AA20-259A: Iran-Based Threat Actor Exploits VPN Vulnerabilities

    Original release date: September 15, 2020 Summary This Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise framework for all referenced threat actor techniques. This product was written by the Cybersecurity and...
  15. AA20-225A: Malicious Cyber Actor Spoofing COVID-19 Loan Relief Webpage via Phishing Emails

    Original release date: August 12, 2020 Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is currently tracking an unknown malicious cyber actor who is spoofing the Small Business Administration (SBA) COVID-19 loan relief webpage via phishing emails. These emails include a...
  16. AA20-198A: Malicious Cyber Actor Use of Network Tunneling and Spoofing to Obfuscate Geolocation

    Original release date: July 16, 2020 Summary This Activity Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK™) and Pre-ATT&CK frameworks. See the MITRE ATT&CK for Enterprise and Pre-ATT&CK frameworks for referenced threat actor techniques. Attributing...
  17. AA20-133A: Top 10 Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

    Original release date: May 12, 2020 Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the broader U.S. Government are providing this technical guidance to advise IT security professionals at public and private sector...
  18. AA20-106A: Guidance on the North Korean Cyber Threat

    Original release date: April 15, 2020 | Last revised: June 23, 2020 Summary The U.S. Departments of State, the Treasury, and Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are issuing this advisory as a comprehensive resource on the North Korean cyber threat for the international...
  19. AA20-182A: EINSTEIN Data Trends – 30-day Lookback

    Original release date: June 30, 2020 Summary Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) analysts have compiled the top detection signatures that have been the most active over the month of May in our national Intrusion Detection System (IDS), known as EINSTEIN. This information is...
  20. AA20-133A: Top 10 Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

    Original release date: May 12, 2020 Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the broader U.S. Government are providing this technical guidance to advise IT security professionals at public and private sector...