Mandiant Issues Final Report Regarding Accellion FTA Attack
Mandiant validates full remediation of all known security vulnerabilities in the FTA product
PALO ALTO, Calif., March 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)
Accellion, Inc., provider of Kiteworks, the industry’s first enterprise content firewall, today issued a statement with regards to the previously reported cyberattacks on Accellion’s legacy File Transfer Appliance (“FTA”) product.
As previously disclosed, Accellion engaged FireEye Mandiant, a leading cybersecurity forensics firm, to conduct an investigation into the sophisticated cyberattacks on Accellion’s legacy FTA software in December 2020 and January 2021, and to review the FTA software for any other potential security vulnerabilities. Today, Mandiant has shared its full and final report with Accellion, which includes the following key findings: