Seriously? Another One. Fortra’s GoAnywhere SNAFU, Detailed.
Right, so listen up, because I’m only saying this once. Fortra – formerly Intermapper, if you *must* know, and probably still full of the same idiots – had a zero-day in their GoAnywhere MFT software (CVE-2025-10035). A zero day. Meaning someone found a hole before they did. Shocking.
Apparently, some script kiddie (or nation-state actor, whatever) started poking around in January, using a pre-auth SQL injection vulnerability to upload a webshell. They didn’t just stop there, oh no. They then used that access to steal data from *a lot* of customers. Like, a lot. Fortra finally figured out something was wrong in late February when their monitoring systems (which clearly weren’t doing their job) started screaming.
Then came the fun part: figuring out what happened and patching the damn thing. They released fixes, but not before the attackers had already been merrily downloading sensitive information for weeks. The timeline they’ve published is basically a post-mortem of incompetence, detailing how long it took them to notice, investigate, and respond. They’re now blaming some “advanced persistent threat” – which translates to “we were asleep at the wheel”.
The worst part? They think this was targeted. Targeted! As if *not* being targeted is a good excuse for letting your software get pwned. Honestly, the whole thing reeks of poor security practices and a general lack of giving a damn.
So yeah, Fortra screwed up royally. Update your GoAnywhere instances if you haven’t already (you should have ages ago), and maybe consider finding a vendor who actually knows what they’re doing. Don’t come crying to me when your data gets stolen because you ignored warnings.
Link to the full, excruciatingly detailed report: https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/from-detection-to-patch-fortra-reveals.html
Related Anecdote: I once had to babysit a server running an ancient version of PHP with more vulnerabilities than lines of code. The sysadmin insisted it “just worked.” It didn’t, obviously. Got compromised within 48 hours. I told him so. He blamed the internet. Some people are beyond help.
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