Chinese Hackers Exploited Recent Fortinet Flaw
Suspected China-nexus threat actor exploited a recently patched vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS SSL-VPN as a zero-day in attacks which are targeting a European government entity and a managed service provider (MSP)that is located in Africa. Telemetry evidence gathered by Google-owned Mandiant indicates that the exploitation is occurred as early as October 2022which is at least nearly two months before fixes were released.Suspected China-nexus threat actor exploited a recently patched vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS SSL-VPN as a zero-day in attacks This incident continues in China’s pattern of exploiting internet facing devices which specifically those used for managed security purposes (e.g., firewalls, IPS\IDS appliances etc.). The attacks entailed the use of a […]