Here's how Chinese cyber spies exploited a critical Fortinet bug
A few days later, the vendor released a more detailed. It indicated that miscreants were using the flaw in an attempt to attack large organizations, steal their data, and cause OS or file corruption:"The complexity of the exploit suggests an advanced actor and that it is highly targeted at governmental or government-related targets."published today, Mandiant pinned the blame on Chinese hackers – with the FortiOS zero day, and"multiple" bespoke malware families.
"Mandiant suspected the FortiGate and FortiManager devices were compromised due to the connections to VIRTUALPITA from the Fortinet management IP addresses," the researchers observed. The first one, which occurred when the threat actor initially gained access to the Fortinet ecosystem while the FortiManager device was exposed to the internet, uses the CASTLETAP backdoor plus another novel malware named THINCRUST.
The spies exploited the path traversal vulnerability by using the command"execute wireless-controller hs20-icon upload-icon." Normally, this command is used to upload icon files from a server to a FortiGate firewall, where they can be used in HotSpot 2.0 Online Sign-Up portals . Unfortunately the command had two serious issues, as Mandiant researchers explained:
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