By Catalin Cimpanu – ConnectWise, a Florida-based company that provides remote IT management solutions, is warning customers that hackers are targeting its software to gain access to client networks and install ransomware.

ConnectWise Automate is a software package that lets IT admins manage a company’s computer fleet and other IT assets from a central location. It’s a classic remote access/management solution that many large companies use when they have assets spread across a large number of locations.

The software is available in a cloud-based offering, but also as on-premise servers, for more secure setups.

In a security alert sent out this week, ConnectWise said hackers are targeting on-premise Automate systems so they can take over servers and then deploy ransomware across a company’s entire computer fleet.

“There are recent reports of malicious actors targeting open ports for [ConnectWise] Automate’s on-premises application to introduce ransomware,” a ConnectWise spokesperson told ZDNet in an email today. Read On: