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
Solarwinds [signed] software containing a planted vulnerability released in March 2020 as a regular (trusted) software patch. The backdoor was not discovered until the FireEye breach became public 9 months later.
Dec 15, 2020
Severity:
Critical