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AI Let ‘Unsophisticated’ Hacker Breach 600 Fortinet Firewalls, AWS Says, As AI Lowers ‘The Barrier’ For Threat Actors

Hackers use AI, GenAI and LLMs to breach Fortinet FortiGate firewalls as cybersecurity and threat actors leverage AI for ...

AI helps novice threat actor compromise FortiGate devices in dozens of countries

Generative AI tools analyzed target networks and wrote exploit code, enabling an opportunistic attacker to have an outsized ...
Dark Reading

600+ FortiGate Devices Hacked by AI-Armed Amateur

A Russian-speaking hacker used GenAI to breach the FortiGate firewalls, targeting credentials and backups for possible ransomware follow-on attacks.
SecurityWeek

Hundreds of FortiGate Firewalls Hacked in AI-Powered Attacks: AWS

Threat actors have been hacking FortiGate firewalls via exposed ports and weak credentials with the help of AI.

Amazon: AI-assisted hacker breached 600 FortiGate firewalls in 5 weeks

Amazon is warning that a Russian-speaking hacker used multiple generative AI services as part of a campaign that breached more than 600 FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in five weeks.
CSO Online

Russian group uses AI to exploit weakly-protected Fortinet firewalls, says Amazon

The report warns CSOs that while AI is helping unsophisticated threat actors, failure to implement cybersecurity basics is fatal regardless of the attacker's skill.
PC Magazine

Fortinet FortiGate 200A

The Fortinet Fortigate 200A is an impressive security appliance. And, while the unit offers security services that are on par with those from Servgate and Astaro, we had hoped for integrated spam ...