A new critical zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer software is being actively exploited by attackers to exfiltrate data from organizations. MOVEit Transfer is a managed file transfer (MFT) software, developed by Progress, designed to provide organizations a way to securely transfer files, which can be implemented on-premise or as a cloud SaaS platform. According to BleepingComputer, attackers have been actively exploiting MOVEit Transfer to download data from organizations.
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On May 31, threat actors were discovered targeting a critical zero day in MOVEit Transfer software resulting in escalated privileges and unauthorized data access. The vulnerability being exploited is an SQL injection and has since been patched. Resources links, including one for the patch, are at the bottom of this post. MOVEit Transfer is a managed file transfer (MFT) solution developed by Ipswitch (a subsidiary of Progress Software).
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