Cybercriminals armed with off-the-shelf generative AI tools compromised more than 600 internet-exposed FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in just over a month, according to a new incident report from AWS.
The campaign, which ran from mid-January to mid-February, relied less on clever zero-days and more on the equivalent of trying every digital door handle – just at machine speed, with AI lending a hand behind the scenes. AWS says the financially motivated Russian-speaking crew behind the campaign scanned for exposed FortiGate management interfaces, tried commonly reused or weak credentials, and then hoovered up configuration files once inside, giving them a roadmap of victim networks.
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Source: The Register News
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