ConnectWise customers get mysterious warning about 'sophisticated' nation-state hack

ConnectWise has brought in the big guns to investigate a "sophisticated nation state actor" that broke into its IT environment and then breached some of its customers. In a May 28 advisory, the IT management software vendor said the compromise "affected a very small number" of its customers who use ScreenConnect, a remote …

[may_i]

Ironic

It's ironic how many of these "all your eggs in one basket" solutions get owned. Time and time again.

The fact that they shut the "hardened security" gate after the horse was well away over the field is a great advert! So normally, you don't run with "hardened security"?

OK.

This is what happens when the people in the C-suite decide "we'll just pay someone else for security".

[Doctor Syntax]

Re: Ironic

Ironic but not surprising. Baskets full of eggs are worth more than individual eggs. If you're going into the basket-weaving industry you need to be really good at it and stay that way.

[HXO]

'sophisticated nation state actor'. Hahaha, it always is.

[Anonymous Coward]

Nation-State Attacker, Sophisticated Methods, Blah-Blah-Blah

Used to be, if you paid Mandiant enough money, they'd say that. Dunno how things at Mandiant are since they were Googlised.

[ecofeco]

LOL

Maybe connecting EVERYTHING by remote was not such a good idea?

We don't call it IdioT for nothing.