Weekly Threat Briefs

FortiGuard Labs uses its industry leading global infrastructure of threat sensors, honeypots, and collectors to provide you with the largest source of data of any pure play network security vendor. Data is collected from all of these sources on a continual basis and analyzed by Fortinet’s world-wide team of analysts to provide you with a weekly recap of the incidents and threats you care the most about.

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Trying to Steal the Holidays (Again!) - Much of the world’s population celebrates holidays every December, connecting with friends and family and reflecting on the past year. Malware operators also observe the holidays, annually attempting to compromise the systems of users who have let their...

Jan 06, 2023
The Year of the Wiper - FortiGuard Labs has been actively tracking wiper malware that has been targeting Ukrainian organizations since the start of the 2022 Russia-Ukraine conflict. The sudden spike in wiper malware began early in the year, with numerous new wiper samples targeting Ukraine. It...

Jan 27, 2023
The Story of a Ransomware Turning into an Accidental Wiper - In the last issue of our Ransomware Roundup series, a publicly available open-source ransomware toolkit called Cryptonite was discussed. As part of the investigation, FortiGuard Labs also discovered a Cryptonite sample in the wild that...

Dec 09, 2022
2022 IoT Threat Review - FortiGuard Labs monitors the IoT botnet threat landscape for new and emerging campaigns. We do this with the assistance of the honeypots we have deployed to capture active attacks in the wild. This article provides insights into the data collected from our monitoring...

Jan 20, 2023
Staying Digitally Secure This Holiday Season - This holiday season, checking off your gift list might look a little different. Given the spike in digital activity predicted to occur over the holidays, cybercriminals will also be making their lists, and checking them twice. This is a particularly...

Dec 02, 2022