QUANTUM THREAT INTELLIGENCE
A Group-IB and NyxLab investigation published October 23, 2026 attributes a campaign against internet exposed Fortinet FortiGate and FortiWeb and Palo Alto GlobalProtect, PAN-OS and Prisma Access appliances to an actor called k0t, linked to the Qilin and The Gentlemen ransomware groups. Access came through CVE-2025-64446 and CVE-2026-0257 or plain brute forcing of common passwords, persistence through legitimate remote access tools, and more than 70,000 credentials tied to network devices and directory dumps were exposed. The actor scanned for appliances rather than choosing targets, so any Canadian operator with an exposed firewall or VPN gateway on an old firmware or a weak admin password was a candidate.
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