NCCIC Issues Alert on APTs Actively Attacking MSPs and Their Customers

National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) issued an alert via US-CERT alerting information technology (IT) service providers around the globe of an ongoing campaign of APT actors trying to infiltrate their networks.

As detailed in the NCCIC alert, managed service providers (MSP) and cloud service providers (CSP) are the organizations targeted by multiple advanced persistent threat (APT) actors currently attempting to infiltrate their networks by exploiting trust relationships.

MSPs are organizations which provide their customers with remote system and IT management services at a lower cost than the one customers could get by managing them using their own staff.

Because of most IT service providers providing direct access to their customers' networks, an APT actor successfully exploiting its way within an MSP's network could... (read more)

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