FortiBleed Attackers Collaborate with Ransomware Groups
After gaining a foothold in thousands of Fortinet firewalls, the attackers are starting to monetize that access, and are also piling on a Nextcloud zero-day bug.
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After gaining a foothold in thousands of Fortinet firewalls, the attackers are starting to monetize that access, and are also piling on a Nextcloud zero-day bug.
Researchers are also investigating the role of a suspected zero-day vulnerability.
Researchers say credentials harvested from hundreds of thousands of FortiGate firewalls are being used to facilitate ransomware attacks by the INC and Lynx operations. The post FortiBleed Campaign Linked to INC, Lynx Ransomware Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The recently discovered financially-motivated FortiBleed campaign has been attributed to INC and Lynx ransomware operations, indicating that the verified, stolen credentials were intended for follow-on intrusions. "An operator tied to FortiBleed's infrastructure was found actively working negotiatio
A Russian-speaking initial access broker (IAB) driven by financial gain is assessed to be behind a large-scale credential-harvesting operation known as FortiBleed that has targeted over 430,000 FortiGate firewalls globally. The campaign, active since February 2026, involves collecting credential lis
The threat actors engineered a Golang-based sniffer to target 430,000 FortiGate firewalls and identify 110 million credentials in the ongoing global campaign.