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Fortinet VPN with default certificate exposes 200,000 businesses to hack

According to SAM Seamless Network, over 200,000 businesses are using Fortigate VPN with default settings. This choice could allow an attacker to present a valid SSL certificate and carry out man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks on employees connections. The Fortigate SSL-VPN client only verifies that the CA was issued by Fortigate (or another trusted CA), therefore an attacker can easily present a certificate issued to a different Fortigate router without raising any flags. Fortinet has no plans to address the vulnerability.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/108737/hacking/fortigate-vpn-attacks.html

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