Cring ransomware spread through hole in FortiGate VPN
Kaspersky reported how recent attacks against a series of European industrial networks were accomplished at a vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiGate VPN. (Alexxsun/CC BY-SA 4.0) In the early months of 2021, cybercriminals believed to be manually delivering Cring ransomware, struck a series of European industrial networks. Kaspersky is the first to report how those attacks were accomplished: a vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiGate VPN. According to Kaspersky, one client’s infection was severe enough to cause a “temporary shutdown of the industrial process due to servers used to contr...