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With state agencies IT teams largely operating independently, neither the state s outgoing chief information officer nor his successor can be certain all state government business is being conducted securely. ....
minute read Share this article: The Tier 1 telecom giant was caught up in a coordinated, wide-ranging attack using unpatched security bugs in the Accellion legacy file-transfer platform. Singtel, Tier 1 telecom carrier throughout Asia and owner of Australian telco Optus, has been impacted by a software security hole in a third-party file transfer appliance targeted by attackers. Singtel is one of multiple organizations affected by the bug, including an Australian medical research institution. The point of entry for the attack was software company Accellion, maker of (among other things) a legacy large file transfer product called File Transfer Appliance, or FTA. FTA is a 20-year-old product that was targeted by a “sophisticated cyberattack” on Dec. 23, according to a company notice in early February. ....
The Washington State Capitol Building in Olympia. (Pastajosh, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Malicious actors last Dec. 25 stole millions of unemployment applicantsâ data from the Washington State Auditorâs Office (SAO) via a zero-day vulnerability in a 20-year-old file transfer service from Accellion, Inc. The incident and its aftermath serve as an example of the discord and miscommunications that can transpire between a third-party software provider and its users when something goes wrong. The attack also demonstrates not only the critical importance of securing sensitive data on the move, but also the potential risks of using legacy applications that are nearing end of life. ....
Accellion Provides Update to Recent FTA Security Incident All Known Vulnerabilities Closed and Migration Efforts Continue PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Accellion, Inc., provider of the industry’s first enterprise content firewall, today issued an update on the recently reported security incident regarding FTA, Accellion’s legacy large file transfer product. Accellion FTA, a 20 year old product nearing end-of life, was the target of a sophisticated cyberattack. All FTA customers were promptly notified of the attack on December 23, 2020. At this time, Accellion has patched all known FTA vulnerabilities exploited by the attackers and has added new monitoring and alerting capabilities to flag anomalies associated with these attack vectors. ....