
The recent exploitation of a critical vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication software, identified as CVE-2024-40711, has highlighted significant cybersecurity challenges. This vulnerability, which allows unauthenticated remote code execution, was first reported by Florian Hauser of CODE WHITE GmbH. The situation has been actively tracked by Sophos X-Ops MDR and Incident Response teams, who observed a sequence of attacks that