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Security experts are warning that a pair of high-risk flaws in a popular remote access tool are being exploited by hackers to deploy LockBit ransomware — days after authorities announced that they had disrupted the notorious Russia-linked cybercrime gang. In a post on Mastodon on Thursday, Sophos said that it had observed “several LockBit attacks” following exploitation of the ConnectWise vulnerabilities. “Two things of interest here: first, as noted by others, the ScreenConnect vulnerabilities are being actively exploited in the wild. Rogers said that Huntress has seen LockBit ransomware deployed on customer systems spanning a range of industries, but declined to name the customers affected. The company’s website claims that the organization provides its remote access technology to more than a million small to medium-sized businesses.