American Hospital Association April 5, 2021
The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Friday advised organizations to protect their computer networks from known vulnerabilities in FortiOS, the operating system for the Fortinet network security system. The agencies in March observed cyber actors scanning for these vulnerabilities, likely to gain access to networks to launch future distributed denial-of-service attacks, ransomware attacks, structured query language injection attacks, spearphishing campaigns, website defacements and disinformation campaigns. The advisory includes mitigation actions for organizations whether they use the operating system or not.
Also last week, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center launched its fourth annual National Supply Chain Integrity Month with a call for organizations to strengthen their supply chains against foreign adversaries and other...