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FortiBleed – 70,000+ Fortinet Firewalls Compromised in Massive Exploitation Attack

An exhaustive cyber espionage campaign now dubbed “FortiBleed” has silently compromised over 73,932 unique Fortinet firewall URLs across 194 countries. Originally uncovered by security researcher Volodymyr “Bob” Diachenko and subsequently analyzed by Hudson Rock, this dataset reveals a highly automated, industrial-scale operation targeting FortiGate devices and SSL VPN gateways on an unprecedented global scale. Threat actors executed an […] The post FortiBleed – 70,000+ Fortinet Firewalls Compromised in Massive Exploitation Attack appeared first on Cyber Security News.
An exhaustive cyber espionage campaign now dubbed “FortiBleed” has silently compromised over 73,932 unique Fortinet firewall URLs across 194 countries. Originally uncovered by security researcher Volodymyr “Bob” Diachenko and subsequently analyzed by Hudson Rock, this dataset reveals a highly automated, industrial-scale operation targeting FortiGate devices and SSL VPN gateways on an unprecedented global…
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