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A brief history of mass hacks
Hackers are increasingly abusing bugs in popular enterprise software to target big companies in mass-hacking campaigns
Enterprise cybersecurity tools, such as routers, firewalls and VPNs, exist to protect corporate networks from intruders and malicious hackers, something that is particularly important in today’s age of widespread remote and hybrid working. These bugs have been blamed for an explosion in mass-hacking campaigns in recent years, whereby malicious hackers abuse these often easy-to-exploit security flaws to break into the networks of thousands of organizations and steal sensitive company data. Cybersecurity giant Mandiant said at the time its researchers had observed “identified mass exploitation” of the two flaws, which were being abused by various threat actors to deploy password stealers, backdoors, and in some cases, ransomware.
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