🚨CVE-2024-50623: What You Need to Know 🚨 A critical vulnerability in Cleo’s Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom products is actively being exploited, with multiple organizations already affected. While patching (v5.8.0.24) is crucial, effective protection requires a multi-pronged approach: 1️⃣ Prioritize High-Risk Systems: Use attack chain analysis to identify vulnerable targets. 2️⃣ Remediate: Apply patches in a controlled environment. 3️⃣ Mitigate: Restrict access, monitor for IoCs, and deploy compensating controls if patching is delayed. 4️⃣ Prepare: Update your incident response plan and join ISACs for collaborative defenses. 💡 Proactive action is key. With risks evolving daily, going beyond patching is essential to protect critical systems. Sunil Gottumukkala Vishal Agarwal Rajeev R. Matthias Luft Manish Varma Datla Averlon 🔗 Read more actionable strategies: https://lnkd.in/guHu8XdE
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CVE-2024-50623, also known as the Cleo vulnerability, has dominated cybersecurity discussions this week. With Cleo’s platform serving over 4,000 organizations and reports of active exploitation affecting at least 10 companies, it’s critical to take swift, prioritized action. Averlon’s blog provides a detailed breakdown of this vulnerability and actionable steps to help organizations defend against it. 👉 https://lnkd.in/g_xVYEM8
🚨CVE-2024-50623: What You Need to Know 🚨 A critical vulnerability in Cleo’s Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom products is actively being exploited, with multiple organizations already affected. While patching (v5.8.0.24) is crucial, effective protection requires a multi-pronged approach: 1️⃣ Prioritize High-Risk Systems: Use attack chain analysis to identify vulnerable targets. 2️⃣ Remediate: Apply patches in a controlled environment. 3️⃣ Mitigate: Restrict access, monitor for IoCs, and deploy compensating controls if patching is delayed. 4️⃣ Prepare: Update your incident response plan and join ISACs for collaborative defenses. 💡 Proactive action is key. With risks evolving daily, going beyond patching is essential to protect critical systems. Sunil Gottumukkala Vishal Agarwal Rajeev R. Matthias Luft Manish Varma Datla Averlon 🔗 Read more actionable strategies: https://lnkd.in/guHu8XdE
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CISA added the below Cleo CVE to the Known Exploits Databse confirming that it is being used in Ransomeare attacks https://lnkd.in/g3uREY68
🚨CVE-2024-50623: What You Need to Know 🚨 A critical vulnerability in Cleo’s Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom products is actively being exploited, with multiple organizations already affected. While patching (v5.8.0.24) is crucial, effective protection requires a multi-pronged approach: 1️⃣ Prioritize High-Risk Systems: Use attack chain analysis to identify vulnerable targets. 2️⃣ Remediate: Apply patches in a controlled environment. 3️⃣ Mitigate: Restrict access, monitor for IoCs, and deploy compensating controls if patching is delayed. 4️⃣ Prepare: Update your incident response plan and join ISACs for collaborative defenses. 💡 Proactive action is key. With risks evolving daily, going beyond patching is essential to protect critical systems. Sunil Gottumukkala Vishal Agarwal Rajeev R. Matthias Luft Manish Varma Datla Averlon 🔗 Read more actionable strategies: https://lnkd.in/guHu8XdE
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NOTE to all organizations and vulnerability management teams actively patching CVE-2024-50623 in Cleo’s Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom products: While patching is crucial, a strategic approach is far more effective than rushing into blanket remediation. Before patching, take time to evaluate the context: assess the internet exposure of impacted systems, potential lateral movement paths, and access to critical data or systems. Prioritizing based on these insights can significantly improve remediation efforts. If establishing this context feels challenging, Averlon can help. We can quickly identify high-risk Cleo instances in your environment and assist with remediation or mitigation—often within just a few hours.
🚨CVE-2024-50623: What You Need to Know 🚨 A critical vulnerability in Cleo’s Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom products is actively being exploited, with multiple organizations already affected. While patching (v5.8.0.24) is crucial, effective protection requires a multi-pronged approach: 1️⃣ Prioritize High-Risk Systems: Use attack chain analysis to identify vulnerable targets. 2️⃣ Remediate: Apply patches in a controlled environment. 3️⃣ Mitigate: Restrict access, monitor for IoCs, and deploy compensating controls if patching is delayed. 4️⃣ Prepare: Update your incident response plan and join ISACs for collaborative defenses. 💡 Proactive action is key. With risks evolving daily, going beyond patching is essential to protect critical systems. Sunil Gottumukkala Vishal Agarwal Rajeev R. Matthias Luft Manish Varma Datla Averlon 🔗 Read more actionable strategies: https://lnkd.in/guHu8XdE
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Don't forget! 💡 We're hosting a webinar tomorrow, 5/22, at 1 pm ET with EPSS co-chair Jay Jacobs! Tune in to learn more about: 📊 The EPSS data model ✅ Benefits of integrating EPSS into your vulnerability management strategy 🤔 The difference between EPSS, CVSS, SSVS, and VISS 🎯 Strategies to optimize vulnerability prioritization using EPSS alongside other inputs Register now: https://lnkd.in/eFSbdMJm #VulnerabilityManagement #OSS #OpenSource
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⚠️ Cyberattacks, data breaches, and other incidents are inevitable in our digital world. This guide outlines the 4 key stages of incident response for organizations to navigate effectively: → Preparation and prevention → Detection and analysis → Containment, eradication and recovery → Pot-incident recovery 🔗 Read our full guide here: https://hubs.li/Q02CbPvQ0
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The first two sentences of the Summary of Findings: "Our ways-in analysis witnessed a substantial growth of attacks involving the exploitation of vulnerabilities as the critical path to initiate a breach when compared to previous years. It almost tripled (180% increase) from last year, which will come as no surprise to anyone who has been following the effect of MOVEit and similar zero-day vulnerabilities." To back up JJ's points, we've had Vulnerability Management solutions for decades. Vulnerability Prioritization products have really started to take off in the past few years to address the problems customers have had with Vulnerability Management. Yet, we still had a "substantial growth of attacks involving the exploitation of vulnerabilities as the critical path". Maybe there's something missing here? That something is an accurate asset inventory and assurance that the controls that give you "control" over your assets that have these vulnerabilities are: 1) Deployed 2) Functioning 3) Configured correctly. That's the bigger picture of what Sevco is going to solve with Exposure Management (https://lnkd.in/gsnkw2PP). 2024 Vz DBIR here: https://lnkd.in/gP3E5Nvm
The 2024 Vz DBIR was published today. Here's a headline: 50% of _actively exploited_ vulnerabilities still unpatched after 55 days. Those same vulnerabilities were first _observed_ within 5 days. Our industry thinks we have a vulnerability prioritization problem, but I don't believe that is true. We have a remediation problem. ❗ 20% of your machines are missing their patch management agent. They never get patched. There is no remediation if you are missing your patch management agent. ❗ Remediation is too hard - it is manual, across teams, working with different data. Prioritization _is_ important if your remediation capacity is constrained, but make remediation more effective and prioritization is less important. Sevco has been solving the first problem of missing agents for years. We launched our exposure management and remediation management features to address the second. If your vulnerability management program is not starting with a complete and accurate asset inventory, including making sure your vuln mgmt and patch agents are everywhere, you are wasting precious time. Let us help you improve it and get that 55 days of CISA KEV vulns patched down to 5 days. Read more at the links below. 2024 Vz DBIR here: https://lnkd.in/gP3E5Nvm Sevco's new exposure management platform: https://lnkd.in/gsnkw2PP
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This simply speaks to WHY Sevco Security has developed our Exposure Management platform! As an industry we need to do better about ACTUALLY patching ALL the machines in your environment. Sevco Security will give you the much needed visability to ensure that ALL of your assets are properly protected and vulnerabilities have been patched! Would you like to know more? #theonlygoodCVEisapatchedone #Assetintelligence #CAASM #Cyberexposure #Exposuremanagement
The 2024 Vz DBIR was published today. Here's a headline: 50% of _actively exploited_ vulnerabilities still unpatched after 55 days. Those same vulnerabilities were first _observed_ within 5 days. Our industry thinks we have a vulnerability prioritization problem, but I don't believe that is true. We have a remediation problem. ❗ 20% of your machines are missing their patch management agent. They never get patched. There is no remediation if you are missing your patch management agent. ❗ Remediation is too hard - it is manual, across teams, working with different data. Prioritization _is_ important if your remediation capacity is constrained, but make remediation more effective and prioritization is less important. Sevco has been solving the first problem of missing agents for years. We launched our exposure management and remediation management features to address the second. If your vulnerability management program is not starting with a complete and accurate asset inventory, including making sure your vuln mgmt and patch agents are everywhere, you are wasting precious time. Let us help you improve it and get that 55 days of CISA KEV vulns patched down to 5 days. Read more at the links below. 2024 Vz DBIR here: https://lnkd.in/gP3E5Nvm Sevco's new exposure management platform: https://lnkd.in/gsnkw2PP
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