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An ongoing campaign targeting FortiGate devices with management interfaces exposed on the public Internet is leading to unauthorized administrative logins and configuration changes, creating new accounts, and performing SSL VPN authentication.

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According to the tech giant, it has observed a threat group seeking out vulnerable customer accounts using generative AI, then creating tools to abuse these services.

The security vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-50603, which rates 10 out of 10 on the CVSS scale, enables unauthenticated remote code execution on affected systems, which cyberattackers are using to plant malware.

Threat actors are targeting people searching for pirated or cracked software with fake downloaders that include infostealing malware such as Lumma and Vidar.

The Hellcat ransomware group has stolen roughly 5,000 documents, potentially containing confidential information, from the telecom giant's internal database.

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