N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands
REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); Once there, they registered a new Cloudflare Tunnel service to keep their foothold even after being booted from the N-central server – behavior that Huntress had already observed in the wild. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); N-able has now confirmed that its own investigation found the same activity, and says a "limited number" of customers were affected. It hasn't said how many customers that means, how many downstream systems attackers reached, or what they did once they had established persistent access.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); Once there, they registered a new Cloudflare Tunnel service to keep their foothold even after being booted from the N-central server – behavi
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); N-able has now confirmed that its own investigation found the same activity, and says a "limited number" of customers were affected.
- ▪It hasn't said how many customers that means, how many downstream systems attackers reached, or what they did once they had established persistent access.
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