AI-Assisted Hacker Breaches 600+ FortiGate Firewalls Across 55 Countries: What Happened and How to Defend Right Now
What happens when a novice cybercriminal gets an AI co‑pilot? In this case: a global smash-and-grab across more than 600 FortiGate devices, spanning 55 countries, executed in just a few weeks—and powered in part by off-the-shelf generative AI. According to reporting from Amazon Threat Intelligence, surfaced by The Hacker News, a Russian-speaking, financially motivated actor…