iTWire Thursday, 08 April 2021 11:31 New Windows ransomware Cring attacks Fortigate VPN servers
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A relatively new strain of Windows ransomware known as Cring has been noticed attacking Fortigate VPN servers using a vulnerability which has the reference
Vyacheslav Kopeytsev, a senior security researcher at global security firm Kaspersky s Industrial Control Systems Computer Emergency Response Team, said in
a blog post that threat actors had conducted attacks using Cring in the first quarter of this year, but at that stage it was unclear as to what the infection vector was.
However, the firm discovered that the Fortigate VPN servers were the point of entry, Kopeytsev said.
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