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A now-patched vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE Access has been observed being exploited to deliver both cryptocurrency miners and ransomware on affected machines. “The attacker intends to utilize a victim’s resources as much as possible, not only to install RAR1Ransom for extortion, but also to spread GuardMiner to collect cryptocurrency,” Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Cara […]
Fortinet on Monday revealed that the newly patched critical security vulnerability impacting its firewall and proxy products is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-40684 (CVSS score: 9.6), the flaw relates to an authentication bypass in FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager that could allow a remote attacker to perform unauthorized operations on the administrative […]
Fortinet has privately warned its customers of a security flaw affecting FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies that could potentially allow an attacker to perform unauthorized actions on susceptible devices. Tracked as CVE-2022-40684 (CVSS score: 9.6), the critical flaw relates to an authentication bypass vulnerability that may permit an unauthenticated adversary to carry out arbitrary […]
A newly observed phishing campaign is leveraging the recently disclosed Follina security vulnerability to distribute a previously undocumented backdoor on Windows systems. “Rozena is a backdoor malware that is capable of injecting a remote shell connection back to the attacker’s machine,” Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Cara Lin said in a report this week. Tracked as […]
A variant of the Mirai botnet called Beastmode has been observed adopting newly disclosed vulnerabilities in TOTOLINK routers between February and March 2022 to infect unpatched devices and expand its reach potentially. “The Beastmode (aka B3astmode) Mirai-based DDoS campaign has aggressively updated its arsenal of exploits,” Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs Research team said. “Five new exploits […]
Fortinet VPN users are urged to reset their passwords as the company has acknowledged the data to be legitimate. Popular network security solutions provider, Fortinet, has confirmed that a cybercriminal gang managed to gain unauthorized access to VPN login IDs and passwords linked with 87,000 FortiGate SSL-VPN devices. Hackread.com can confirm the gang has dumped […]
Details have emerged about a new unpatched security vulnerability in Fortinet’s web application firewall (WAF) appliances that could be abused by a remote, authenticated attacker to execute malicious commands on the system. “An OS command injection vulnerability in FortiWeb’s management interface (version 6.3.11 and prior) can allow a remote, authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands […]
Ironically, companies that offer information security services are also exposed to malicious hackers; they’re even a great target. Experts from the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have released a report warning about serious vulnerabilities in some of the most popular virtual private network (VPN) services. The companies noted in […]
Ethical hacking experts report that, in recent days, threat actors have been scanning the Internet looking for non updated SSL VPNs developed by the company Fortinet to exploit a critical vulnerability. The main objective of the operators of this campaign is the theft of login credentials and other confidential details. If successful, threat actors could […]
About a week ago, two reports of vulnerabilities affecting the Virtual Private Network (VPN) Secure Socket Layer (SSL) systems of Fortinet appeared. According to the experts who revealed these flaws, a hacker group has begun exploiting these vulnerabilities in FortiGate and Pulse Connect Secure SSL VPNs. Fortinet’s engineers implemented a very bad method of authentication […]
Scans for Fortinet devices have intensified. An unknown group has been scanning the Internet for old Fortinet equipment that includes a secret SSH backdoor account that can be exploited to take over the devices. Ten days ago, an anonymous user posted a full disclosure regarding a hidden account that was included in Fortinet’s FortiOS, on versions […]
Fortinet’s FortiOS operating system, deployed on the company’s FortiGate firewall networking equipment includes an SSH backdoor on versions from the 4.x series up to and including 4.3.16, and the 5.x series up to and including version 5.0.7. This vulnerability is not a deja vu of the Juniper incident and seems to be a completely different […]