Fortinet

Fortinet: FortiGate config leaks are genuine but misleading

Competition hots up with Ivanti over who can have the worst start to a year

Cyber-crime17 Jan 2025 | 5

Miscreants 'mass exploited' Fortinet firewalls, 'highly probable' zero-day used

Updated Ransomware 'not off the table,' Arctic Wolf threat hunter tells El Reg

Networks14 Jan 2025 | 26

China-linked group abuses Fortinet 0-day with post-exploit VPN-credential stealer

No word on when or if the issue will be fixed

Security19 Nov 2024 | 2

Fortinet patches VPN app flaw that could give rogue users, malware a privilege boost

Plus a bonus hard-coded local API key

Patches14 Nov 2024 |

Winos4.0 abuses gaming apps to infect, control Windows machines

'Multiple' malware samples likely targeting education orgs

Security08 Nov 2024 | 6

FortiManager critical vulnerability under active attack

Updated Security shop and CISA urge rapid action

Cybersecurity Month23 Oct 2024 | 7

Thousands of Fortinet instances vulnerable to actively exploited flaw

No excuses for not patching this nine-month-old issue

Cybersecurity Month14 Oct 2024 | 8

CISA adds fresh Ivanti vuln, critical Fortinet bug to hall of shame

Usual three-week window to address significant risks to federal agencies applies

Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 |

Fortinet admits miscreant got hold of customer data in the cloud

That would explain this 440GB leak, then

Cyber-crime13 Sep 2024 | 5

Sneaky SnakeKeylogger slithers into Windows inboxes to steal sensitive secrets

Malware logs users' keystrokes, pilfers credentials, exfiltrates data

Research05 Aug 2024 | 15

China's FortiGate attacks more extensive than first thought

Dutch intelligence says at least 20,000 firewalls pwned in just a few months

Cyber-crime12 Jun 2024 | 13

Microsoft squashes SmartScreen security bypass bug exploited in the wild

Patch Tuesday Plus: Adobe, SAP, Fortinet, VMware, Cisco issue pressing updates

Security10 Apr 2024 | 22

More than 133,000 Fortinet appliances still vulnerable to month-old critical bug

A huge attack surface for a vulnerability with various PoCs available

Patches18 Mar 2024 | 2

Fortinet's week to forget: Critical vulns, disclosure screw-ups, and that toothbrush DDoS attack claim

An orchestra of fails for the security vendor

Cyber-crime09 Feb 2024 | 6

Double trouble for Fortinet as it issues critical FortiSIEM vulns

Updated Please stand by 73 hours for vendor response...*

Patches06 Feb 2024 | 3

You've patched right? '340K+ Fortinet firewalls' wide open to critical security bug

That's a vulnerability that's under attack, fix available ... cancel those July 4th plans, perhaps?

Black Hat and DEF CON03 Jul 2023 | 13

A (cautionary) tale of two patched bugs, both exploited in the wild

One affects VMware's monitoring tool and the other TP-Link routers

Patches21 Jun 2023 | 8

Fortinet squashes hijack-my-VPN bug in FortiOS gear

And it's already being exploited in the wild, probably

Patches12 Jun 2023 | 2

Fortinet's latest firewall promises hyperscale security while sipping power

Need more speed? Just stuff it with custom ASICs

Energy Efficient Datacenters12 Apr 2023 | 4

Microsoft: Patch this severe Outlook bug that Russian miscreants exploited

Patch Tuesday Plus: Fixes for SAP, Adobe. Android, Chrome

Patches14 Mar 2023 | 38

Fortinet's latest ASIC promises 2.5Gbps of SSL inspection at the edge

New entry-level firewalls to follow

Systems07 Feb 2023 | 9

Fortinet's cloud firewall ditches custom ASICs for Amazon's Graviton CPUs

You might say they've Arm-ed their security suite for battle

Off-Prem29 Nov 2022 |

China-linked Budworm burrows hole in US legislature systems

In brief Also, Senator Warren says banks need to grow the Zelle up, an AirTag does some good – if you’re a Democrat, and more

Security17 Oct 2022 | 7

Fortinet warns of critical flaw in its security appliance OSes, admin panels

Naturally, they're already under attack – so you know what to do next

Patches11 Oct 2022 | 15

Fortinet's latest hyperscale kit packs 2.4Tbit/sec of firewall into a 4U chassis

And it only took 16 ASICs

Networks04 Aug 2022 | 2

World Economic Forum wants a global map of online crime

RSA Conference Will cyber crimes shrug off Atlas Initiative? Objectively, yes

Cyber-crime10 Jun 2022 | 7

Watch out for phishing emails that inject spyware trio

You wait for one infection and then three come along at once

Research01 Jun 2022 | 13

Fortinet's latest firewall is like your kids' music – you're probably not ready for it, yet

Unless you happen to be in healthcare or finance or using AI on personal info or...

Networks05 May 2022 | 6

Data-wiper malware strains surge as Ukraine battles ongoing invasion

Besides files being erased, another thing being deleted: Any sense this is a coincidence

Research29 Apr 2022 | 11

Interpol: We can't arrest our way out of cybercrime

Especially when gangs are better funded than local police

Cyber-crime29 Apr 2022 | 11

Enemybot botnet uses Gafgyt source code with a sprinkling of Mirai

Keksec malware used for DDoS attacks, may spread to cryptomining, Fortinet says

Security13 Apr 2022 | 1

Fortinet says it’s all about the security ASICs

Xie claims his custom chips lower infosec computing costs by up to 10x

Security10 Mar 2022 | 9

Researchers find high-severity command injection vuln in Fortinet's web app firewall

Updated Mitigation: Don't let randomers from the internet log in to your firewall

Security18 Aug 2021 |

Fortinet's security appliances hit by remote code execution vulnerability

Cure worse than the disease for anyone with the 'fgfmsd' daemon activated

Security20 Jul 2021 | 1

The seven deadly sins letting hackers hijack America's govt networks: These unpatched bugs leave systems open

'Unauthorized access to elections support systems' detected tho 'no evidence to date that integrity of elections data has been compromised'

Security12 Oct 2020 | 7

This week, we give thanks to Fortinet for reminding us what awful crypto with hardcoded keys looks like

Roundup Plus more from the world of infosec

Security28 Nov 2019 | 33

Cyber-sec biz Fortinet coughs up $545,000 after 'flogging' rebadged Chinese kit to Uncle Sam – but why so low? We may be able to explain

Rogue employee takes blame, seems he ain't no Fortinet son

Security17 Apr 2019 | 8

Hungry, hungry network firms: Ericsson, NXP chow down, Ciena on the prowl

Also: New gear out, plus ENISA overlooks squirrels

Networks10 Sep 2018 | 1

NSA's crummy crypto crop Suite B binned, and other network nuggets

NEC cavorts with 5G, Arita finds its Mojo, and much more

Networks03 Aug 2018 | 4

New Zealand school on naughty step after ransomware failure

Fortinet to lock the stable door, horse heads for horizon

Security02 Aug 2018 | 15

'007' code helps stop Spectre exploits before they exist

Singaporeans boffins offer Spectre-protector as Fortinet ponders Android inoculation

Security17 Jul 2018 | 12

Pinging admins: Here comes your packet of networking news

Roundup Blockchain comes to the cable biz, acquisitions, Red Hat Summit and more

Networks11 May 2018 | 6

It's 2017 and someone's probably still using WINS naming. If so, stop

Microsoft's NetBIOS naming is vulnerable: use DNS instead

Security15 Jun 2017 | 32

Hello, Fortinet? Could you patch these vulns please?

Oh, and CERT's left a message or two

Channel07 Sep 2016 | 2

Fortinet axes two per cent of workforce, chops 100 sales, ad staff, execs

Just a re-alignment of talent, no need to panic, move along, nothing to see here ...

Channel05 Aug 2016 | 1

Cisco, Fortinet cosy up to NATO for infosharing

The l33tz will shake and quake in their boots

Security01 Mar 2016 | 1

Thought you were safe from the Fortinet SSH backdoor? Think again

More devices are dodgy and hackers are cruising for targets

Security23 Jan 2016 | 20

Fortinet tries to explain weird SSH 'backdoor' discovered in firewalls

Update your firmware or suffer the consequences

Networks12 Jan 2016 | 34

Sophos, Fortinet settle patent lawsuit, allegations of staff poaching

No admission of malfeasance either way

Channel09 Dec 2015 | 1

Fortinet rides to troubled Meru's rescue

Adding cloudy WLAN to wireless security portfolio

Channel28 May 2015 | 1

NOT OK GOOGLE: Android images can conceal code

It's been fixed, but hordes won't have applied the upgrade

Security22 Oct 2014 | 33

We told you jailbreaking your iThing was dangerous

Ad revenue looted from 75,000 infected iOS fondelslabs

Security13 Aug 2014 | 26

Fortinet fawns over fast-if-unfashionable ASIC

How else can you get a firewall to Terabit-per-second performance?

Networks24 Jul 2014 | 7

HyTrust pockets more dough, ready to expand virty platform coverage

Intel Capital and Fortinet kick in $6.5m

Virtualization26 Aug 2013 |

Fortinet nabs wily Coyote and its slice of security appliance cake

Or perhaps we mean pie. Made of meaty customers, anyway

Security26 Mar 2013 |

IBM sniffs around Fortinet

But Big Blue is late to the converged infrastructure game

Networks01 Nov 2010 | 2