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At Least 13 Managed Service Providers Were Used To Push Ransomware This Year (zdnet.com) 1
Posted by msmash from the new-security-vectors dept.
A new report published this week by threat intelligence firm Armor puts the number of managed service providers (MSPs) that got hit with ransomware this year at 13, possibly more. From a report: For those unfamiliar with the term, a managed service provider is a company that manages a customer’s IT infrastructure using remote administration tools. MSPs have been around since the 90s, with the dawn of large computer fleets; however, they’ve been catching on with more and more companies in recent years. […] Starting this year, ransomware gangs have realized that they could compromise the network of an MSP, and then use their remote access tools to deploy ransomware on the MSP’s customer networks, infecting hundreds of companies and thousands of computers, all at once, with the push of a few buttons. In a report published this week, Armor took a deeper look at the entire MSP ecosystem and unearthed several other incidents. In total, the company found 13, but many more could be unreported.
Well that article was lacking in a lot of details. It’d be helpful to know how the compromises happened.
From all the cases I’ve read, none of the MSPs had 2FA enabled on their accounts.
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