Russian Invasion Sparks Global Wiper Malware Surge
Fortinet detected a 50% increase in destructive attacks in H2 2022
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Background for this topic.
Fortinet is a cybersecurity vendor best known for FortiGate, a network firewall platform running FortiOS. FortiGate appliances, virtual machines, and cloud deployments provide traffic filtering, VPN access, intrusion prevention, and network segmentation; related products manage devices, collect security telemetry, or protect endpoints. FortiGuard Labs supplies threat intelligence and detection updates used across parts of this ecosystem.
Fortinet matters to security teams because its devices commonly sit at network boundaries and may expose administrative interfaces or SSL-VPN services to the internet. Vulnerabilities in FortiOS or supporting products can therefore create a path to authentication bypass, unauthorized access, or interception of remote connections when affected configurations are present. Practitioners should track Fortinet advisories, promptly apply firmware and signature updates, restrict management access, use multifactor authentication where supported, and monitor device logs and configuration changes. During an incident, preserve firewall and VPN telemetry and review connected systems rather than treating the appliance as an isolated asset.
Fortinet detected a 50% increase in destructive attacks in H2 2022
Threat actors are targeting Internet-exposed Fortinet appliances with exploits targeting CVE-2022-39952, an unauthenticated file path manipulation vulnerability in the FortiNAC webserver that can be abused for remote command execution. [...]
Organizations are urged to update to the latest versions of FortiNAC to patch a flaw that allows unauthenticated attackers to write arbitrary files on the system.
Security researchers have released a proof-of-concept exploit for a critical-severity vulnerability (CVE-2022-39952) in Fortinet's FortiNAC network access control suite. [...]
Security researchers have released a proof-of-concept exploit for a critical-severity vulnerability (CVE-2022-39952) in Fortinet's FortiNAC network access control suite. [...]