CISA – Current Activity

Original release date: April 13, 2022 CISA has added 10 new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risk to the federal enterprise. Note: to view the newly added vulnerabilities in the catalog, […]

Original release date: April 13, 2022 The Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group (ICSJWG) will hold its Spring 2022 Virtual Meeting April 26–27. ICSJWG meetings facilitate relationship building among critical infrastructure stakeholders and owners/operators of industrial control systems, idea exchanges regarding critical issues affecting industrial control systems (ICS) cybersecurity, and information sharing to reduce the

Original release date: April 7, 2022 CISA’s Sharing Cyber Event Information Fact Sheet provides our stakeholders with clear guidance and information about what to share, who should share, and how to share information about unusual cyber incidents or activity.   CISA uses this information from partners to build a common understanding of how adversaries are

Original release date: April 6, 2022 CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risk to the federal enterprise. Note: to view the newly added vulnerabilities in the catalog,

Original release date: April 1, 2022 The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has released information on a vulnerability (CVE-2022-22965), known as “Spring4Shell,” affecting Spring Framework, a Java framework that creates applications, including web applications. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the

Original release date: March 31, 2022 CISA has released two Industrial Controls Systems Advisories (ICSAs) detailing vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation products. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to inject code on affected system.    CISA encourages users and administrators to review ICSA-22-090-05: Rockwell Automation Logix Controllers and ICSA-22-090-07: Rockwell Automation Studio 5000 Logix Designer for more information

Original release date: March 31, 2022 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released a Private Industry Notification (PIN) to inform U.S. Government Facilities Sector partners of cyber actors conducting ransomware attacks on local government agencies that have resulted in disrupted operational services, risks to public safety, and financial losses. CISA encourages local government officials

Original release date: March 31, 2022 CISA has added seven new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risk to the federal enterprise. Note: to view the newly added vulnerabilities in the catalog,

Original release date: March 30, 2022 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released a Private Industry Notification (PIN) to warn U.S. election and other state and local government officials about invoice-themed phishing emails that could be used to harvest officials’ login credentials.  CISA encourages federal, state, and local government officials to review FBI PIN:

Original release date: March 29, 2022 CISA and the Department of Energy (DOE) are aware of threat actors gaining access to a variety of internet-connected uninterruptable power supply (UPS) devices, often through unchanged default usernames and passwords. Organizations can mitigate attacks against their UPS devices, which provide emergency power in a variety of applications when