According to Cyberscoop, the cyber gang Cl0p “has claimed responsibility for attacks tied to vulnerabilities in software made by Cleo, an Illinois-based IT company that sells various types of enterprise software.” The gang claimed responsibility for the attacks on its website. The vulnerabilities affect Cleo’s products LexiCom, VLTrader, and Harmony. Cleo reportedly services approximately 4,200 organizations. You may remember that Cl0p claimed responsibility for the MoveIT incident in 2023 and, before that, the Accelion incident. Both of these previous incidents affected numerous companies.

The exploitation was identified by Huntress Labs. The flaw, CVE-2024-50623, “is an unrestricted file upload and download vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution.”

Cleo has released multiple patches for the CVE, including one last week to fix the issue.

Rapid7 has noted an uptick in compromised endpoints in the consumer products, food, and shipping industries. Rapid7 has provided mitigation guidance, including “updating to the latest version of affected products immediately.”  Sound guidance.

If your company uses Cleo products LexiCom, VLTrader, or Harmony, follow the guidance and apply the provided patches provided.

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Linn Freedman practices in data privacy and security law, cybersecurity, and complex litigation. She is a member of the Business Litigation Group and the Financial Services Cyber-Compliance Team, and chairs the firm’s Data Privacy and Security and Artificial Intelligence Teams. Linn focuses her…

Linn Freedman practices in data privacy and security law, cybersecurity, and complex litigation. She is a member of the Business Litigation Group and the Financial Services Cyber-Compliance Team, and chairs the firm’s Data Privacy and Security and Artificial Intelligence Teams. Linn focuses her practice on compliance with all state and federal privacy and security laws and regulations. She counsels a range of public and private clients from industries such as construction, education, health care, insurance, manufacturing, real estate, utilities and critical infrastructure, marine and charitable organizations, on state and federal data privacy and security investigations, as well as emergency data breach response and mitigation. Linn is an Adjunct Professor of the Practice of Cybersecurity at Brown University and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Roger Williams University School of Law.  Prior to joining the firm, Linn served as assistant attorney general and deputy chief of the Civil Division of the Attorney General’s Office for the State of Rhode Island. She earned her J.D. from Loyola University School of Law and her B.A., with honors, in American Studies from Newcomb College of Tulane University. She is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Read her full rc.com bio here.