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FBI urges users to apply Fortinet patches,
Advanced persistent threat groups are continuing to exploit unpatched flaws in Fortinet products, the FBI says in a flash alert. For example, an APT group apparently recently exploited a Fortigate appliance to access a web server hosting the domain for a U.S. municipal government.
Earlier, the FBI issued a warning about three vulnerabilities in Fortinet s operating system, FortiOS (see:
The bureau urges users of vulnerable Fortinet products to immediately patch the flaws to prevent attacks.
Vulnerabilities
According to the FBI, the three FortiOS vulnerabilities that are still being exploited are:
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The Agrius attack life cycle (Source: SentinelOne)
A threat group likely operating from Iran has been attacking Israeli targets for more than a year with the wiper variants Apostle and Deadwood, masking the intrusions as ransomware attacks to confuse defenders, according to SentinelOne.
The security firm, which didn t specify which targets in Israel were attacked, says the incidents took place this year and last, with the wiper functionality used in only some of the attacks.
The threat group, which SentinelOne dubbed Agrius, appears to have links to known Iranian actors, the research report states. An analysis of what at first sight appeared to be a ransomware attack revealed new variants of wipers that were deployed in a set of destructive attacks against Israeli targets, says Amitai Ben Sushan Ehrlich, a threat intelligence researcher at SentinelOne. The operators behind the attacks intentionally masked their activity as ransomware attacks.
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