Enterprise Cybersecurity Tools: Protecting Corporate Networks from Intruders

Enterprise cybersecurity tools, such as routers, firewalls, and VPNs, are designed to protect corporate networks from intruders and malicious hackers. This is particularly important in today’s age of widespread remote and hybrid working.

However, while these products are pitched as tools that help organizations stay safe from outside threats, many of them have been found to contain software bugs that allow malicious hackers to compromise the very networks these products were designed to protect.

The Rise of Mass-Hacking Campaigns

These bugs have been blamed for an explosion in mass-hacking campaigns in recent years. Malicious hackers abuse these often easy-to-exploit security flaws to break into the networks of thousands of organizations and steal sensitive company data.

We’ve put together a brief history of mass-hacks, and will update this article when more inevitably come to light.

Recent Mass-Hacking Campaigns

One Fortinet firewall bug has been “mass exploited” as a zero-day bug since at least December 2024, according to security research firms. Fortinet declined to say how many customers were affected, but security research firms investigating the attacks observed intrusions affecting “tens” of affected devices.

SonicWall: Hackers are Remotely Hacking Customers

January 2025 remained a busy month for hackers exploiting bugs in enterprise security software. SonicWall said in late-January that as-yet-unidentified hackers are exploiting a newly discovered vulnerability in one of its enterprise products to break into its customer networks. The vulnerability, which affects SonicWall’s SMA1000 remote access appliance, was discovered by Microsoft’s threat researchers and is “confirmed as being actively exploited in the wild,” according to SonicWall.

The company hasn’t said how many of its customers have been affected or if the company has the technical ability to confirm, but with more than 2,300 devices exposed to the internet, this bug has the potential to be the latest mass-hack of 2025.