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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Following the recent Adobe Flash 0-day (CVE-2017-4878) vulnerability, which was attributed to APT 37 and North Korea by various external researchers, comes light of a new malicious spam campaign utilizing this exploit vector by unknown actors. The malicious emails are utilizing social...

Mar 02, 2018
DDoSing for ransom! Memcached is a popular open-source distributed memory caching system. It is often used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in RAM to reduce the number of times an external data source must be read. Memcached is installed by default on many...

Mar 09, 2018
On Tuesday, March 13, Microsoft released patches addressing 75 unique vulnerabilities; 21 fixes were related to browser vulnerabilities with 14 of those rated as critical. But a key focus of these Patch Tuesday updates is continued fixes for the Meltdown and Spectre flaws. This month's...

Mar 16, 2018
The FortiGuard Labs has discovered and reported multiple use-after-free (UAF) vulnerabilities found in several versions of Microsoft Office. All known vulnerabilities are rated as critical or important and were patched in the recent March Patch Tuesday security updates released from Microsoft,...

Mar 23, 2018
On Friday, March 23rd, in a coordinated press release between the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), an indictment and sanctions were announced related to Iranian threat actors affiliated with the Mabna Institute. The Mabna Institute is an Iran based...

Mar 30, 2018