25 Jun, 2026

FortiBleed campaign used custom FortiGate sniffer to steal credentials

Security firm SOCRadar says the large-scale FortiBleed campaign targeting Fortinet FortiGate devices used custom sniffers to harvest authentication secrets from compromised firewalls and steal credentials. The report, published today, expands on the company’s previous research into the large-scale “FortiBleed” campaign, which revealed a collection of Fortinet VPN credentials associated with more than 80,000 firewall URLs worldwide. According to SOCRadar, […]

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FortiBleed leak exposes Fortinet VPN credentials for 73,000 devices.

A newly discovered data leak dubbed “FortiBleed” has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials for 73,932 firewall URLs at organizations worldwide. The exposed data was first discovered by security researcher Bob Diachenko, who says he found a server containing what appeared to be valid Fortinet VPN credentials, including […]

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FortiBleed leak exposes Fortinet VPN credentials for 73,000 devices.

A newly discovered data leak dubbed “FortiBleed” has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials for 73,932 firewall URLs at organizations worldwide. The exposed data was first discovered by security researcher Bob Diachenko, who says he found a server containing what appeared to be valid Fortinet VPN credentials, including […]

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CyberStrikeAI tool adopted by hackers for AI-powered attacks

Researchers warn that a newly identified open-source AI security testing platform called CyberStrikeAI was used by the same threat actor behind a recent campaign that breached hundreds of Fortinet FortiGate firewalls. Last month, GeekFeed reported on an AI-assisted hacking operation that compromised more than 500 FortiGate devices in five weeks. The threat actor behind this campaign used […]

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Amazon: AI-assisted hacker breached 600 Fortinet firewalls in 5 weeks

Amazon is warning that a Russian-speaking hacker used multiple generative AI services as part of a campaign that breached more than 600 FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in five weeks. A new report by CJ Moses, CISO of Amazon Integrated Security, says that the hacking campaign occurred between January 11 and February 18, 2026, and did not rely […]

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Hackers breach Fortinet FortiGate devices, steal firewall configs

Fortinet FortiGate devices are being targeted in automated attacks that create rogue accounts and steal firewall configuration data, according to cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf. The campaign started last week, on January 15, with the attackers exploiting an unknown vulnerability in the devices’ single sign-on (SSO) feature to create accounts with VPN access and exporting firewall configurations […]

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Fortinet admins report patched FortiGate firewalls getting hacked

Fortinet customers are seeing attackers exploiting a patch bypass for a previously fixed critical FortiGate authentication vulnerability (CVE-2025-59718) to hack patched firewalls. Until Fortinet provides a fully patched FortiOS release, admins are advised to temporarily disable the vulnerable FortiCloud login feature (if enabled) to secure their systems against attacks. To disable FortiCloud login, you have […]

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Over 10K Fortinet firewalls exposed to actively exploited 2FA bypass

Over 10,000 Fortinet firewalls are still exposed online and vulnerable to ongoing attacks exploiting a five-year-old critical two-factor authentication (2FA) bypass vulnerability. Fortinet released FortiOS versions 6.4.1, 6.2.4, and 6.0.10 in July 2020 to address this flaw (tracked as CVE-2020-12812) and advised admins who couldn’t immediately patch to turn off username-case-sensitivity to block 2FA bypass attempts […]

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Fortinet warns of 5-year-old FortiOS 2FA bypass still exploited in attacks

Fortinet has warned customers that threat actors are still actively exploiting a critical FortiOS vulnerability that allows them to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) when targeting vulnerable FortiGate firewalls. Tracked as CVE-2020-12812, this improper authentication security flaw was found in FortiGate SSL VPN and enables attackers to log in to unpatched firewalls without being prompted for the […]

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Critical Fortinet flaws now exploited in Qilin ransomware attacks

The Qilin ransomware operation has recently joined attacks exploiting two Fortinet vulnerabilities that allow bypassing authentication on vulnerable devices and executing malicious code remotely. Qilin (also tracked as Phantom Mantis) surfaced in August 2022 as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation under the “Agenda” name and has since claimed responsibility for over 310 victims on its dark […]

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