These attacks highlight how technical debt and low cybersecurity maturity can compound risk. Many organizations struggle with basic cybersecurity capabilities, leaving them vulnerable to both historical and emerging threats. If adversaries can exploit older flaws, they will. Addressing the risks associated with legacy systems is imperative; however, it demands investments that many organizations lack the resources to make.
These attacks highlight, reinforce, and emphasize the importance of attack surface management. Equipment with exploitable vulnerabilities this old have often simply been forgotten, lost in an M&A process, or otherwise left off an IT maintenance or hardware refresh list. Attackers are aware of this phenomenon and the plethora of opportunistic targets it provides for them.
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