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FortiBleed Campaign Linked to INC, Lynx Ransomware Attacks

FortiBleed, the large-scale credential-harvesting operation targeting organizations in 150 countries, has led to the deployment of INC Ransom and Lynx ransomware families, SOCRadar reports. Uncovered in mid-June, FortiBleed has been targeting over 430,000 FortiGate firewalls for the deployment of a network sniffer dubbed FortigateSniffer to capture the traffic passing through them and extract cleartext credentials and password hashes for future compromise. The campaign is likely mounted by a Russian initial access broker aiming to gain access to Active Directory domains, steal sensitive information, and establish persistent access. FortiBleed has been ongoing since at least February, and the attackers are estimated to have compromised over 110 million credentials. Now, SOCRadar says it…

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Jul 2, 2026
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