European Institutions Breached via Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile Vulnerabilities
The European Commission disclosed it is investigating a breach after detecting traces of an attack against its central mobile device management (MDM) infrastructure used to administer staff mobile devices. The Commission said the incident was contained and the system cleaned within nine hours, and it has not found evidence that managed mobile devices themselves were compromised; however, attackers may have accessed limited staff personal data such as names and mobile phone numbers.
The activity appears consistent with a broader set of intrusions affecting European public-sector bodies tied to vulnerabilities in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM). Dutch authorities reported that the Dutch Data Protection Authority and the Council for the Judiciary/Justice experienced nearly identical breaches in which unauthorized parties exploited an Ivanti EPMM software flaw to access employee data, including names, email addresses, and phone numbers, suggesting a shared exploitation vector across multiple European institutions’ MDM deployments.
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