Nation-State Hackers Put Defense Industrial Base Under Siege

The report warns that nation-state actors are increasingly using zero-day vulnerabilities in edge devices (VPNs, gateways, security appliances) to pre-position persistent access into defense firms and related sectors; Google, Recorded Future, ESET, and CISA data indicate active exploitation and campaigns by China-linked, Russian, Iranian, and North Korean groups targeting DIB personnel, infrastructure, and supply chains, with edge devices being an attractive, under-patched initial access vector.