The increase in mass exploitation involving edge services and devices is likely to worsen.
June 14, 2024 By Kevin Townsend
Edge devices and services, together with network infrastructure devices, are often the start point for the growing incidence of mass exploitation attacks.
The growth of mass exploitation compromises and increased criminal targeting of edge and infrastructure devices is well observed. The two often go together. Mandiant’s M-Trends 2024 report comments on nation state actors from both Russia and China, and criminal groups such as FIN11, all using edge devices, often compromised through zero-day vulnerabilities, in their activities.
Forescout’s Riskiest Devices 2024 report comments that the riskiest devices in 2023 were endpoints, but are now network infrastructure devices. Infrastructure devices and edge devices are often synonymous with one overriding characteristic: they have an internet face.
