Top U.S. cybersecurity officials confirmed Thursday that several federal agencies have been impacted by cyberattacks on the widely used MOVEit file transfer tool.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly told reporters that her team and the FBI are working to provide assistance to federal agencies that used MOVEit, which is being exploited by the Russia-based Clop ransomware gang in a widespread breach that appears to have compromised dozens of entities.
“We’ve been working closely with Progress Software [which makes MOVEit], the FBI and our federal partners to understand its prevalence within federal agencies,” she said. Earlier in the day, CNN first reported that several government agencies were compromised in the hacks. Easterly said that CISA is providing support to “several agencies that have experienced intrusions of their MOVEit applications.”
Berne, 14.06.2023 - Depuis la révélation de l'attaque par rançongiciel qui a visé l'entreprise Xplain, des examens approfondis sont en cours à l'administration fédérale. Les analyses effectuées jusqu'à présent montrent que les données dérobées comprennent aussi des données opérationnelles de diverses autorités et organisations. Le but est maintenant de comprendre comment ces données se sont retrouvées sur l'infrastructure de l'entreprise Xplain.
Affected Platforms: FortiOS
Impacted Users: Targeted at government, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure
Impact: Data loss and OS and file corruption
Severity Level: Critical
Today, Fortinet published a CVSS Critical PSIRT Advisory (FG-IR-23-097 / CVE-2023-27997) along with several other SSL-VPN related fixes. This blog adds context to that advisory, providing our customers with additional details to help them make informed, risk-based decisions, and provides our perspective relative to recent events involving malicious actor activity.
When Lexfo Security teased a critical pre-authentication RCE bug in FortiGate devices on Saturday 10th, many people speculated on the practical impact of the bug. Would this be a true, sky-is-falling level vulnerability like the recent CVE-2022-42475? Or was it some edge-case hole, requiring some unusual and exotic requisite before any exposure? Others even went further, questioning the legitimacy of the bug itself. Details were scarce and guesswork was rife.
Lundi 12 juin 2023, plusieurs sites Internet de la Confédération étaient ou sont encore inaccessibles, en raison d’une attaque DDoS menée contre ses systèmes. Celle-ci a été rapidement détectée par les spécialistes de l’administration fédérale, qui travaillent actuellement à rétablir dans les plus brefs délais l’accès aux applications et sites Internet touchés.