Supply-Chain Attacks Exploit Blind Spots in Vendor Security
Summary
The article explains how compromises at vendors and software suppliers can affect downstream organizations, reviews MOVEit and GoAnywhere incidents, and argues for continuous vendor visibility and software component transparency.
Key points
- Supply-chain attacks can reach organizations through trusted vendors, software dependencies, and update channels outside their direct security controls.
- The article cites the Cl0p campaigns targeting MOVEit Transfer and Fortra GoAnywhere MFT as examples of upstream compromises affecting downstream victims.
- MOVEit-related breaches or exposures had affected more than 2,700 organizations and exposed personal data belonging to more than 93 million people by January 2024, according to sources cited in the article.
- The article says traditional vulnerability scanning can miss supplier assets that are outside an organization’s scan scope.
- Government guidance described in the article promotes Software Bills of Materials to improve visibility into software components, including open-source software and SaaS.
- The article recommends ongoing visibility into vendor infrastructure, exposed credentials, and third-party breach signals.
Article Details
- Topic
- Supply chain attacks, vendor risk, and defenses in 2026
CVE
CVE-2023-0669The same advisory covers an earlier Cl0p campaign against Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT, launched in late January 2023 against a separate zero-day, CVE-2023-0669.CVE-2023-34362FBI documented in advisory AA23-158A how the Cl0p ransomware group exploited a SQL injection flaw (CVE-2023-34362) in Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer platform, a widely used managed file transfer tool.
Threat Actors
Vendors
FortraThe same advisory covers an earlier Cl0p campaign against Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT, launched in late January 2023 against a separate zero-day, CVE-2023-0669.Progress Softwareadvisory AA23-158A how the Cl0p ransomware group exploited a SQL injection flaw (CVE-2023-34362) in Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer platform, a widely used managed file transfer tool.
Products
GoAnywhere MFTThe same advisory covers an earlier Cl0p campaign against Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT, launched in late January 2023 against a separate zero-day, CVE-2023-0669.MOVEit Transferhow the Cl0p ransomware group exploited a SQL injection flaw (CVE-2023-34362) in Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer platform, a widely used managed file transfer tool.