The Financial Times broke a story about how the British Intelligence service MI5 was warning CEOs at major businesses that, Foreign intelligence agencies are targeting IT workers at big businesses, hoping to recruit them and gain privileged access to sensitive computer systems. These accounts are the most powerful in any organization and are designed to manage network systems, run services, or allow applications to communicate with one another. Security researchers like CyberSheath have highlighted that these accounts have been at the epicenter of 100 percent of all advanced attacks.”]
Source: https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/articles/foreign-spies-target-workers/