From ehackingnews.com
After issuing a cybersecurity advisory warning that APT hacker groups are purposefully targeting vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS, the FBI now warned that after hacking a Fortinet appliance, state-sponsored attackers compromised the webpage of a US local government.
Fortinet is a multinational security company based in Sunnyvale, California. It creates and sells cybersecurity solutions, which include hardware like firewalls as well as software and services like anti-virus protection, intrusion prevention systems, and endpoint security components.
“As of at least May 2021, an APT actor group almost certainly exploited a Fortigate appliance to access a web-server hosting the domain for a U.S. municipal government,” the FBI’s Cyber Division said in a TLP:WHITE flash alert published on 27th May.