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Ongoing Campaign May Be Grabbing Legacy Passwords From Fortinet FortiGate DevicesCybercriminals are selling access to 75,000 Fortinet FortiGate devices with VPN and web management interfaces, and the admin credentials appear to be legitimate and recently harvested as part of a still-live campaign, security experts warned.
FortiBleed: Admin Passwords for 75,000 Fortinet Firewalls Are Out in the Wild. Half the Internet-Facing Fortinets on the Planet. Security researcher Bob Diachenko found a server sitting open on the internet containing what appeared to be valid Fortinet VPN credentials, including usernames, email addresses, and plaintext passwords for tens of thousands of organizations. He posted […]
Check Point has warned of active exploitation of a critical vulnerability impacting Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments that are configured to use the deprecated IKEv1 key exchange protocol
'Opportunistic, Mass Exploitation' Campaign Surging, Say Cybersecurity ResearchersAttackers wielding Akira ransomware appear to be engaged in an "opportunistic, mass exploitation" of SonicWall SSL VPN servers, even when they're using the latest firmware and configured to require multifactor authentication one-time passwords, warn cybersecurity researchers.
As the gateways to corporate networks, VPNs are an attractive target for attackers. Learn from Specops Software about how hackers use compromised VPN passwords and how you can protect your organization. [...]
Actively Targeted Zero Day Patched; Warning Issued After Device Configurations LeakFortinet has released patches to fix a zero-day vulnerability being actively exploited by attackers. Separately, researchers are warning customers to review their infrastructure after attackers leaked configuration details - including firewall rules and plaintext VPN passwords - for 15,000 devices.
Security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the industrial remote access solution Ewon Cosy+ that could be abused to gain root privileges to the devices and stage follow-on attacks
Networking equipment major Cisco on Wednesday confirmed it was the victim of a cyberattack on May 24, 2022 after the attackers got hold of an employee's personal Google account that contained passwords synced from their web browser
A new campaign leveraging an exploit kit has been observed abusing an Internet Explorer flaw patched by Microsoft last year to deliver the RedLine Stealer trojan
In January, KrebsOnSecurity examined clues left behind by "Wazawaka," the hacker handle chosen by a major ransomware criminal in the Russian-speaking cybercrime scene. Wazawaka has since "lost his mind" according to his erstwhile colleagues, creating a Twitter account to drop exploit code for a widely-used virtual private networking (VPN) appliance, and publishing bizarre selfie videos taunting security researchers and journalists. In last month's story, we explored clues that led from Wazawaka's multitude of monikers, email addresses, and passwords to a 30-something father in Abakan, Russia named Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev. This post concerns itself with the other half of Wazawaka's identities not mentioned in the first story, such as how Wazawaka also ran the Babuk ransomware affiliate program, and later became "Orange," the founder of the ransomware-focused Dark Web forum known as "RAMP."