Managing vulnerabilities can feel like the end of the first act of Les Misérables as you sing to yourself, “one day more, another day another vulnerability.” Like Jean Valjean, you attempt to put up barricades to protect your environment from attackers exploiting these security weaknesses. Keeping pace with the number of vulnerabilities and threat actor activities becomes overwhelming, leaving you to feel outnumbered and outmanned.

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break! WordPress is often an easy target from lack coding, but in this case a curious injection at source. But how?

On June 25, 2024, Progress Software, the parent company of the MOVEit software suite, officially released details for two critical vulnerabilities identified in MOVEit Gateway and MOVEit Transfer, CVE-2024-5805 and CVE-2024-5806 respectively. MOVEit Transfer is a managed file transfer solution that supports the exchange of files and data between servers, systems and applications within and between organizations.

In 2023 alone, there were over 3,200 reported cyberattacks, with over 350 million victims in the United States. That’s not to mention the undetected or failed attacks by these cybercriminals, both external and internal, to get access to sensitive data and customers’ Personal Identifiable Information (PII).