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A Russian-linked crew ran 1.16 billion login attempts against Fortinet firewalls and walked away with credentials for 73,000 devices — including a NATO defense contractor. Plus: Splunk's emergency patch deadline and WordPress plugins secretly backdoored.
A four-year botnet secretly rented out millions of home internet connections. Plus: 73,000 Fortinet VPNs had passwords stolen, LastPass got caught in a supply chain breach, and WhatsApp is being used to hijack PCs worldwide.
Credentials for 75,000 Fortinet firewalls are sitting on a hacker's server right now — your company may be on the list. Plus: a Microsoft Defender zero-day with no patch yet, and a hacker who stayed inside a network for 33 days after his server went offline.