Fortinet Leak Demonstrates Need For Remote Access System Patching

Fortinet Leak Demonstrates Need For Remote Access System Patching

In early September, a threat actor leaked nearly 500,000 Fortinet VPN login names and passwords that were allegedly scraped from vulnerable devices last summer. The leaked credentials could allow hackers to access an exposed network to perform data exfiltration, install malware, and perform ransomware attacks. BitSight was able to verify that 98% of the IP addresses in the leaked files were, in fact, running Fortinet VPN servers within the past 12 months.

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