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The company recently published a security advisory, detailing a critical-severity vulnerability in the FortiGate firewalls.

Malicious actors can abuse the bug to gain super-admin privileges, it was said.

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Unfortunately, no one was able to confirm even an estimated number of victims.

The researchers also could not attribute the attack to any particular threat actor.

However, researcher Kevin Beaumont suggested that at least one of the threat actors is a ransomware operator.