Actual cybersecurity isn't something you can just buy off-the-shelf and requires skill and making every single person in the org to give a shit about it, which is already hard to achieve, and even more so when you've tried for years to pay them as little as you can get away with.
It's fine to say "Look this is bad, don't do" and "A patch was issued for this, you are responsible" but when some set of circumstances arises that has not been thought about before that cause a problem, then there's nothing that could have been done to stop it.
Note that the entire QA industry is explicitly geared to try and look at software being produced in a way that nobody else has thought to, in order to find if that software still behaves "correctly", and <some colour of hat> hackers are an extension of that - people looking at software in a way that developers and QA did not think of.. etc
Isn't most off-the-shelf software effectively always supplied without any kind of warranty? What grounds would the lawsuit have?
“We are aware” and “very limited” are likely (in our opinion, this is probably not fact, etc, etc) to be doing a significant amount of lifting.
For avoidance of doubt, the following versions of Ivanti EPMM are patched:
None
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Ah, this company is a security joke as most software security companies are.
1. https://labs.watchtowr.com/someone-knows-bash-far-too-well-a...
https://hub.ivanti.com/s/article/Security-Advisory-Ivanti-En...
Ivanti doesn't explain how this happened or what mistake led to this exploit being created.
Ivanti is a US company. But if you have never heard of them, the dragon-resembling creature in the illustration (representing the dormant backdoor?) makes it look like the incident is somehow related to China.
Anyway, the image is just the end result of plugging the title into nano banana. You ought to address your complaints to Google :)
Semi-related: with the recent much-touted cybersecurity improvements of AI models (as well as the general recent increase in tensions and conflicts worldwide) I wonder just how much the pace of attacks will increase, and whether it’ll prove to be a benefit or a disadvantage over time. Government sponsored teams were already combing through every random weekend project and library that somehow ended in node or became moderately popular, but soon any dick and tom will be able to do it at scale for a few bucks. On the other hand, what’s being exploited tends to get patched in time - but this can take quite a while, especially when the target is some random side project on github last updated 4 years ago.
My gut feeling is that there will be a lot more exploitation everywhere, and not much upside for the end consumer (who didn’t care about state level actors anyway). Probably a good idea to firewall aggressively and minimize the surface area that can be attacked in the first place. The era of running any random vscode extension and trust-me-bro chrome extension is likely at an end. I’m also looking forward to being pwned by wifi enabled will-never-be-updated smart appliances that seem to multiply by the year.
That's the gap with point-in-time security and checkbox compliance. You run your scan, get a clean report, move on. Meanwhile something like this sits in memory waiting for a buyer. The checklist says "run vulnerability scans quarterly" not "detect dormant in-memory class loaders planted by initial access brokers." Continuous monitoring that baselines normal behavior and flags deviations, even subtle ones like a new JSP file in a path that shouldn't change, is the only way to catch this. But most orgs aren't doing it because their compliance framework doesn't require it.
If you ask me... both these companies should be treated similarly to misbehaving banks: banned from acquiring new customers, an external overseer installed, and only when the products do not pose a threat to the general public any more, they can acquire new customers again.
This product was MobileIron, which was actually a pretty decent MDM platform, except like most acquisitions like this I'm sure they purged anyone with a clue. Unlike something like Pulse VPN, MDM is a sticky product and difficult/time-consuming to transition from.
