Cyber Criminals Exploit Network Access and Privilege Escalation

Summary

Cyber criminals are focusing their operations to target employees of companies worldwide who maintain network access and an ability to escalate network privilege. During COVID-19 shelter-in-place and social distancing orders, many companies had to quickly adapt to changing environments and technology. With these restrictions, network access and privilege escalation may not be fully monitored. As more tools to automate services are implemented on companies’ networks, the ability to keep track of who has access to different points on the network, and what type of access they have, will become more difficult to regulate.

This FBI PIN contains an overview of the threat, recommended mitigations, and is being provided to assist cybersecurity professionals guard against the persistent malicious actions of cyber actors.

Reporting

We encourage recipients who discover signs of malicious cyber activity to contact us via the cyber incident report form here.