HP discovered exploits of the zero-day CVE-2021-40444 – a remote code execution vulnerability that allows for the exploitation of MSHTML browser engine utilizing Microsoft Office documents – a week before the fix was released on September 14.

The Acronis Cyber Readiness Report reveals that as hackers target remote workers, phishing, distributed denial of service (DDoS), and videoconferencing attacks are the most common tactics used.

The challenge for organizations is that managing the protection of data across the company network and all of those new devices using a stack of different solutions is expensive, time-consuming, and complicated.