Security pros must always remember that we are custodians of the digital realm and it’s our job to keep people safe.

Security pros say while the target was an unclassified network, the research it manages on emerging technologies could be of interest to adversaries.

MITRE Corporation disclosed it was compromised by a nation-state attack leveraging two Ivanti Connect Secure vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887, in January, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.