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A high-severity vulnerability patched recently by Fortinet in its FortiWeb web application firewall can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands. Rey Medov, a researcher at Russian enterprise cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies, discovered that the FortiWeb firewall - specifically its management interface - is affected by a vulnerability that can allow a remote, authenticated attacker to execute commands on the system via the SAML server configuration page.
The FBI on Thursday published indicators of compromise associated with the continuous exploitation of Fortinet FortiOS vulnerabilities in attacks targeting commercial, government, and technology services networks. In early April, the FBI along with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned that threat actors had been targeting serious security holes in Fortinet's flagship operating system FortiOS for initial access into victims' networks.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation says state-sponsored attackers breached the webserver of a U.S. municipal government after hacking a Fortinet appliance. "As of at least May 2021, an APT actor group almost certainly exploited a Fortigate appliance to access a webserver hosting the domain for a U.S. municipal government," the FBI's Cyber Division said in a TLP:WHITE flash alert published today.
"In at least in one case, an attack of the ransomware resulted in a temporary shutdown of the industrial process due to servers used to control the industrial process becoming encrypted," Kaspersky senior security researcher Vyacheslav Kopeytsev wrote in the report. One of those bugs, is CVE-2018-13379, a path-traversal flaw in Fortinet FortiOS. The vulnerability is tied to system's SSL VPN web portal and allows an unauthenticated attacker to download system files of targeted systems via a specially crafted HTTP resource requests.
A vulnerability impacting Fortinet VPNs is being exploited by a new human-operated ransomware strain known as Cring to breach and encrypt industrial sector companies' networks. The Cring operators drop customized Mimikatz samples, followed by CobaltStrike after gaining initial access and deploy the ransomware payloads by downloading using the legitimate Windows CertUtil certificate manager to bypass security software.
The U.S. government is warning that Advanced Persistent Threat actors are exploiting vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS in ongoing attacks targeting commercial, government, and technology services networks. The warning, issued in a joint advisory by FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, follows the recent release of security patches covering serious security flaws in Fortinet's flagship FortiOS product.
UPDATE. The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are warning that advanced persistent threat nation-state actors are actively exploiting known security vulnerabilities in the Fortinet FortiOS cybersecurity operating system, affecting the company's SSL VPN products. The bug tracked as CVE-2018-13379 is a path-traversal issue in Fortinet FortiOS, where the SSL VPN web portal allows an unauthenticated attacker to download system files via specially crafted HTTP resource requests.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warn of advanced persistent threat actors targeting Fortinet FortiOS servers using multiple exploits. In the Joint Cybersecurity Advisory published today, the agencies warn admins and users that the state-sponsored hacking groups are "Likely" exploiting Fortinet FortiOS vulnerabilities CVE-2018-13379, CVE-2020-12812, and CVE-2019-5591.
Linksys and Fortinet announced a strategic alliance with the intent to further secure and optimize the performance and management of home networks in today's work from home environment. Together, Fortinet, Linksys, and FIT will offer connectivity and security and unparalleled quality of service to organizations that need to provide seamless and secure connectivity for their employees to efficiently work from home.
Ordr announced that the company has expanded its partnership with Fortinet to deliver integrated solution to address the security challenges posed by widespread IoT and unmanaged devices. As the number of connected devices on corporate networks-from critical business infrastructure such as IP-enable physical security devices to consumer devices such as smart speakers-has grown exponentially, they have become lucrative targets for attack.