24 October 2026 - 07:34

Category: Breach

Edge devices give away the keys again

Exposed Fortinet and Palo Alto firewalls generously surrendered over 70,000 enterprise credentials. Naturally, perimeter defence remains entirely aspirational.

Edge devices give away the keys again

Source: The Hacker News

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Here we go again with enterprise edge devices proving about as barrier-like as a beaded curtain. Researchers caught a vast campaign pillaging exposed Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect gear, stripping away seventy thousand credentials from poor enterprises. Shielding our estates from this circus means actually securing those exposed network edge devices rather than leaving them sitting on the open internet like lost luggage. It is just another Tuesday in IT, watching the very kit bought to protect enterprise firewalls and VPNs cheerfully do the exact opposite.

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