Fidelis Cybersecurity, a global leader in advanced cybersecurity solutions, released updates to protect customers against the MOVEit privilege escalation vulnerability. This vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild and has affected multiple organizations. A successful exploit could allowย threat actorsย to take control of affected systems.
Fidelis Cybersecurityย put detections in place to protectย Fidelis Networkย customers, and has enabled retrospective queries so customers can determine any potential impacts prior to these updates. Fidelis Network customers have automatically received those updates.
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“Having retrospective analysis in place pays big dividends when dealing withย zero-day vulnerabilities. Given the complexity of systems and the constantly evolving nature of threats, having adequate visibility, detection, and response capabilities enables security teams to quickly assess damage, understand system impacts, and clean up any compromised systems,” saidย Chris Kubic,ย CISOย atย Fidelis Cybersecurity.
The Fidelis Threat Research Team is continually trackingย MOVEitย exploits and implementing ongoing improvements for customer defenses as new information arises.
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Amol Sarwate, VP ofย Threat Researchย atย Fidelis Cybersecurityย stated, “We continue receiving hits from our telemetry forย MOVEit, which indicates ongoing attacks. We are actively monitoringย sandboxย activity, external feeds, telemetry data, and the rules we have in place to help customers defend their organizations.”
As organizations face an evolving threat landscape,ย Fidelis Cybersecurityย remains at the forefront, delivering innovating solutions that help ensure customer success against sophisticatedย cybercrimesย andย nation-stateย threats.
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