Last week, their attempts were eventually found in the kind of backdoors that were lately discovered, raising troubling new questions regarding state attempts to break network security.

And unlike most susceptibility, kept secret for so long as possible, made to be overlooked and this weakness seems to have been intentionally added in the code.

Why really would someone need to put a backdoor in corporate VPN applications? Juniper VPNs shield hundreds of corporate networks while it is not a household name, just the sort of capacity sought by intelligence agencies all over the world. Undermining these links would give access to communications and sensitive info, said chief research officer at Rapid7, HD Moore, in an interview together with The Brink. Some estimates place the amount of apparatus exposed to the backdoors of Juniper at around 26,000, smaller than most susceptibility but more profitable spies with particular targets.

While the FBI looks into the unauthorized code of Juniper, a lot of folks are inquiring on their own, and in their heads, state -sponsored opponents will likely attribute for the backdoors. It is not difficult to see why. A lot of other states, and the NSA, GCHQ, China, Russia, Iran regularly run cyber-espionage. China and the US, for example, only reached an understanding about corporate cyber-espionage, without addressing state spying. It’s not difficult to envision that at least one, if not multiple states are behind the backdoors of Juniper. Scientists have provided convincing evidence for every single case.