What is MOVEit Transfer ?
The MOVEit Transfer is a file-transfer tool that is popular to a lot of organizations. It provides secured transfer between enterpsises by encrypting files at rest and during transfer. It also provides management tools and visibility for monitoring the data flow.
What is the Attack?
The attack can lead an unauthorized user to gain unauthorized access to MOVEit Transfer’s database.
Why is this Significant?
An active exploitation in the wild is at present. Also, there are several hundreds publicly available on the Internet using the MOVEit Transfer according to Shodan.
What is the Vendor Solution?
The vendor has provided three levels of mitigations. First one is to deny the service via blocking any HTTP/HTTPs traffic. Second is to delete unauthorized files and user accounts. Last is to apply the patch on the affected tool.
What FortiGuard Coverage is Available?
FortiGuard Labs released a new IPS signature “Progress.MOVEit.Transfer.Unrestricted.File.Upload” in version 23.570.For a full comprehensive lists of protections from FortiGuard Labs, please visit the Outbreak Alert page for further details.