48,000+ internet-facing Fortinet firewalls still open to attack

Despite last week’s confirmation of and warnings about long-standing exploitation of CVE-2024-55591, a critical vulnerability affecting Fortinet Fortigate firewalls, too many vulnerable devices are still accessible from the Internet and open to attack: over 48,000, according to data from the Shadowserver Foundation. CVE-2024-55591 exploitation On January 10, Artic Wolf Labs researchers outlined an attack campaign targeting FortiGate firewalls with management interfaces exposed on the public internet by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability. It involved attackers scanning … More →

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