The Trump administration has proposed a $707 million cut to CISA’s operating budget, citing waste, weaponization, and redundancy concerns, as nation-state cyber threats increase.
Scattered Spider didn’t need zero-days, malware, or a government’s budget to bring a Fortune 500 company to its knees. They didn’t even need to break in. They just logged in.
Two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti products that were disclosed in January (and patched weeks later) have turned out to be the source of a breach of MITRE, the US government-funded cybersecurity research center. China's nation-state hackers are suspected to be behind the attack given similarities in exploiting these same vulnerabilities in other incidents, but this is not confirmed as of yet.
Nation-state hackers with suspected links to Russia were behind the security breach at FireEye. The attackers stole Red Team tools and searched for government customer information.
