Security News > 2025 > January > Fortinet Warns of New Zero-Day Used in Attacks on Firewalls with Exposed Interfaces

2025-01-14 09:13
Threat hunters are calling attention to a new campaign that has targeted Fortinet FortiGate firewall devices with management interfaces exposed on the public internet. "The campaign involved unauthorized administrative logins on management interfaces of firewalls, creation of new accounts, SSL VPN authentication through those accounts, and various other configuration changes," cybersecurity firm
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