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US and South Korea warn of Gunra ransomware targeting govt agencies

U.S. federal agencies and South Korea's National Policy Agency warned government and critical infrastructure organizations worldwide to secure their systems against Gunra ransomware attacks. In a Monday joint advisory, they said . "Gunra first emerged in April 2025 as a sophisticated double-extortion ransomware variant derived from the leaked Conti1 ransomware source code," the authoring agencies said. "The FBI observed Gunra actors attempting to communicate directly with management staff at victim companies via email to solicit ransom payments with limited success." The ransomware gang has been observed attacking Fortinet firewalls to gain a foothold on their targets' networks using exploits targeting two critical authentication vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-55591 and CVE-2025-24472) in…

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