SentinelOne reports FortiGate NGFW flaws exploited in early 2026 Three critical bugs (CVE-2025-59718, -59719, -2026-24858) enabled admin access and persistence Fortinet issued patches; firms urged to ...

On February 20, 2026, Amazon Threat Intelligence, Amazon's security team, reported that Russian-speaking hackers had exploited multiple commercially available AI services to compromise over 600 ...

A financially motivated threat actor compromised more than 600 FortiGate devices across 55 countries. The campaign relied on commercial generative AI tools. It did not rely on new software ...

“[AI] is making certain types of attacks more accessible to less sophisticated actors who can now leverage AI to enhance their capabilities and operate at greater scale,” said Amazon’s CSO Stephen ...

The cybersecurity industry is getting another demonstration of how generative AI tools can allow lower-skilled threat actors to launch and run wide-ranging attacks that previously would have taken ...

A financially motivated threat actor with little technical knowhow used generative AI (GenAI) to breach hundreds of FortiGate instances at scale. While this showcases how AI can scale workflows to ...

The report warns CSOs that while AI is helping unsophisticated threat actors, failure to implement cybersecurity basics is fatal regardless of the attacker's skill. A Russian-speaking threat actor is ...

A low-skilled cyber threat actor has been observed leveraging several generative AI (GenAI) tools to deploy a malicious campaign aimed at compromising Fortinet’s FortiGate firewall appliances. In an ...

Russian hacker brute-forced FortiGate firewalls using weak credentials AI-generated scripts enabled data parsing, reconnaissance, and lateral movement The campaign targeted Veeam servers; attacker ...

Threat actors relying on AI have been exploiting exposed ports and weak credentials to take over FortiGate devices. Over 600 Fortinet FortiGate firewall instances have been hacked in an AI-powered ...

Article updated at the bottom with additional technical details about this campaign. Amazon is warning that a Russian-speaking hacker used multiple generative AI services as part of a campaign that ...

A Russian-speaking, financially motivated threat actor has been observed taking advantage of commercial generative artificial intelligence (AI) services to compromise over 600 FortiGate devices ...