U.S., U.K. and Australia | Iranian Hackers

Cybersecurity agencies from Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. on Wednesday released a joint advisory warning of

U.S., U.K. and Australia | Iranian Hackers

Cybersecurity agencies from Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. on Wednesday released a joint advisory warning of active exploitation of Fortinet and Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell vulnerabilities by Iranian state-sponsored actors to gain initial access to vulnerable systems for follow-on activities, including data exfiltration and ransomware.

The threat actor is believed to have leveraged multiple Fortinet FortiOS vulnerabilities dating back to March 2021 as well as a remote code execution flaw affecting Microsoft Exchange Servers since at least October 2021