While Managed Service Providers are often the "best" answer for many businesses without the internal expertise or resources to manage their own information technology infrastructure, they are also a point of vulnerability when compromised. In effect, they become a "trusted" distribution channel for malware...
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MSPs - Blessing and a Curse
"A ransomware gang has breached the infrastructure of at least three managed service providers (MSPs) and has used the remote management tools at their dispossal, namely the Webroot SecureAnywhere console, to deploy ransomware on the MSPs' customers systems"