A zero-day authentication bypass vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) SSL VPN appliance is actively exploited in attacks against worldwide organizations and focused on US Defense Industrial base (DIB) networks. The vulnerability can be mitigated on some gateways by disabling Windows File Share Browser and Pulse Secure Collaboration features. FireEye suspects that the UNC2630 threat actor may have ties to APT5, a known APT group that operates on behalf of the Chinese government, based on “strong similarities to historic intrusions dating back to 2014 and 2015″””
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pulse-secure-vpn-zero-day-used-to-hack-defense-firms-govt-orgs/

