Researchers said the vulnerabilities, which attackers are chaining together, were first exploited three weeks before the vendor disclosed and patched the defects.

The White House said the clearinghouse has already started to receive intelligence on vulnerabilities and prioritize patches.

Election officials are facing an impossible choice: follow federal directives they don’t trust, or risk becoming targets of a criminal investigation.

The joint warning from Five Eyes countries mirrors what many cybersecurity and AI experts have been saying for the past year. 

The order — which Trump previously refrained from signing at the last minute — appears to make significant concessions to industry compared to earlier drafts.

Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report uncovered a surge of exploited vulnerabilities, and a growing lack of critical defect remediation industrywide.

The threat group behind the attacks is also linked to a series of recently disclosed vulnerabilities in the vendor’s firewalls and SD-WAN systems.

ShinyHunters, a prolific cybercrime group, threatened to leak data from more than 8,800 school systems.

The vendor hasn’t released a patch for the vulnerability or described the scope and objective of confirmed attacks.

The agency will begin targeted assessments meant to help critical infrastructure entities operate while disconnecting OT networks from IT and third-party vendors.