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FortiBleed Targeted FortiGate Firewalls in 110 Million-Credential Harvesting Operation

A Russian-speaking initial access broker (IAB) driven by financial gain is assessed to be behind a large-scale credential-harvesting operation known as FortiBleed that has targeted over 430,000 FortiGate firewalls globally. The campaign, active since February 2026, involves collecting credential lists, searching for exposed services, brute-forcing accessible systems, and deploying bespoke

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DZone

Phantom APIs Are Eating Your Attack Surface, and Most Security Teams Are Still Looking the Other Way

I've spent the better part of fifteen years staring at API traffic logs for a living, and I can tell you the job has changed twice. The first shift came with microservices, when a handful of monolithic endpoints became thousands of small, chatty interfaces, and nobody could agree on who owned the inventory. The second shift is happening right now, and it's worse because this time the endpoints aren't even being written by people who can explain why they exist. Call them phantom APIs: routes, han

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