Outbreak Alerts
FortiGuard Outbreak Alerts will be the mechanism for communicating important information to customers and partners. When a cybersecurity incident/attack/event occurs that has large ramifications to the cybersecurity industry and affects numerous organizations, this page will be updated with a link to the individual FortiGuard Outbreak Alert. That Alert will include:
- An explanation of the attack, its timeline and what specific technology was affected
- Where applicable patches and/or mitigation recommendations can be found
- What Fortinet products, if deployed, would break the attack sequence
- What specific versions those Fortinet products need to be at to provide the protection
- Threat Hunting tools from Fortinet to help you determine if you were affected
- Related research from FortiGuard Labs
Following initial compromise of the MS Exchange system, the attacker can execute the primary objective. From monitoring these incidents, a new family of ransomware has been detected. The threat is known as DoejoCrypt or DearCry.
Mar 16, 2021
Severity:
High