Comment: Hacker Groups Chain VPN And Windows Bugs To Attack US Government Networks

This is typical behavior when new vulnerabilities and public exploits surface, underlining the importance of proper asset & vulnerability management and patch management. You can safely assume whenever a new vulnerability becomes publicly known, that a race starts to whomever can find a stable exploit and potentially chain it in further attacks. This goes for both the information security community, as well as adversarial hackers. The main difference is their motivation, to either disclose something and help expedite solutions or to weaponize and exploit as many victims as possible in the shortest amount of time. Once an initial foothold is gained by adversaries, they want to try and elevate their privileges as quickly as possible. By chaining vulnerabilities such as the VPN vulnerabilities (gaining access) and the Zerologon vulnerability (elevating privileges) adversaries can go through the entire attack lifecycle in an efficiently automated fashion.  Read Less