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Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM

by @DefusedCyber defusedcyber.com published 2026-02-09

A February 2026 campaign used a internal JSP path and in-memory Java class loaders to quietly seed persistent access across Ivanti EPMM deployments - then walked away. We break down the tradecraft.

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