US, UK, and Australia pin Iran for exploiting Fortinet and Exchange holes

Cyber authorities across the US, UK, and Australia have called for administrators to immediately patch a quartet of vulnerabilities — CVE-2021-34473, 2020-12812, 2019-5591, and 2018-13379 — after attributing some attacks that used them to attackers backed by Iran. “FBI and CISA have observed this Iranian government-sponsored APT group exploit Fortinet vulnerabilities since at least March 2021, and a Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell vulnerability since at least October 2021 to gain initial access to systems in advance of follow-on operations, which include deploying ransomware,”

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