ThreatsDay: Fortinet fixes, PHP2Shell scans, Authenticator token flaw
Fortinet is withholding flaw details until November 10 while Hudson Rock reports 40,573 exposed FortiGate secrets.
Fortinet is withholding flaw details until November 10 while Hudson Rock reports 40,573 exposed FortiGate secrets.
The firm's Q1 figure was 20%, while Verizon's 2026 DBIR put exploitation behind 31% of breaches.
Editorial scores, not lab results, place Splunk SOAR and Tines next, with Torq leading the agentic-AI lane.
The self-hosted gateway inspects prompts, MCP tool traffic, and responses, and can block or redact 35 data types.
Black Lotus Labs says chains were rebuilt in under two minutes and hundreds of victims were notified.
InfraTrust tracked 133 new advisories covering 2,813 vulnerabilities in a month; 16 advisories involved actively exploited KEV-listed flaws.
Hudson Rock parsed 1,703 FortiGate configuration reports and 1,689 host identifiers; 975 domain labels were absent from the earlier set.
The follow-up is stolen configuration files, not a new Fortinet flaw, and the records are not confirmed still valid.
The October 26 bulletin also flags an exploited Arista flaw, a LiteLLM package compromise, and the Aokigahara infostealer.
Fixes cover FortiOS, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiMail and FortiAuthenticator; Fortinet says public diffs will show attackers where to look.
Exposed logs show 8,257 messages across 133 sessions and an estimated 62 targets, four of which appeared on leak sites.
Fixed builds are listed for current branches, while FortiMail 7.2 must move to branch 7.4 or above.
Group-IB and NyxLab say k0t used FortiWeb and PAN-OS flaws, then remote-access tools and cloud exfiltration, from February to June 2026.
Group-IB reports more than 70,000 exposed credentials and active use of CVE-2025-64446 and CVE-2026-0257.
Minimum fixed builds are set for October 22, while PSIRT advisories and CVE details are due November 10.
Palo Alto has no fixed PAN-OS builds yet; Fortinet is still checking 12 products and Cisco 31 products and services.
October 22 updates precede November 10 PSIRT advisories; Fortinet reports no active exploitation and lists no CVE IDs.
Group-IB and NyxLab tie the edge-device campaign to k0t and report more than 70,000 exposed credentials.
SOCRadar found 46 INC encryptor builds, notes on 62 organizations, and more than $23,920 in recorded AI spend.
Horizon3.ai’s proof of concept writes files via unauthenticated gRPC on port 27918; 7.5.1 fixes 7.5.0, and 7.6 is unaffected.
Horizon3.ai's GitHub PoC targets FortiSIEM 7.5.0 over TCP 27918; Fortinet advises 7.5.1 or later.
Horizon3.ai shows a gRPC path traversal on port 27918 that overwrites a cron-run Redis health script.
phQueryMaster on tcp/27918 accepts any client, and a crafted query id can overwrite a cron-run script.
CISA added CVE-2025-61624 to KEV; the memory-only implant rides legitimate FortiGate process traffic.
CISA added actively exploited Fortinet and BeyondTrust flaws to KEV, with a federal fix deadline of October 19.
CISA added actively exploited Fortinet and BeyondTrust flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Unit 42 says PEERSTITCH, planted through FortiManager flaws, exposed material for more than 500 firewalls.
Unit 42 says CL-STA-0954 used Fortinet flaws to deploy memory-resident PEERSTITCH against a telecom provider.
Authenticated admins with read-write rights can write or delete arbitrary files via CLI; the due date is October 19, 2026.
Silent Lynx used a WinRAR flaw and phishing to plant reverse shells on CIS government targets.
Unit 42 details PEERSTITCH, a memory-resident implant used against FortiGate firewalls at a telecom MSP.
Attackers exploited Fortinet flaws at a telecom MSP and deployed the stealthy PEERSTITCH implant on FortiGate firewalls.
A public PoC targets critical FortiClient EMS flaw CVE-2026-35616, which Fortinet says was exploited.
Public exploit code is out for FortiClient EMS flaw CVE-2026-35616, exploited since spring 2026.
ZDI discloses an unauthenticated hard-coded credential bypass in Fortinet FortiSandbox, CVE-2026-107656 (CVSS 7.3).
ZDI disclosed a CVSS 4.9 authenticated denial-of-service flaw in Fortinet FortiSandbox admin profile handling.
Unit 42 says UNC5820 stole data on 500-plus FortiGates and deployed memory-resident PEERSTITCH malware.
TAG-193 ran regional government espionage, adding WinRAR CVE-2025-8088 exploitation to its phishing and reverse-shell toolkit.
Canada's Cyber Centre urges patches for file-write and SQL-injection flaws across several Fortinet products.
A privileged attacker can persistently deny FortiSandbox GUI and CLI access, CVSS 4.8.
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