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Amazon: AI-assisted hacker breached 600 Fortinet firewalls in 5 weeks

Article updated at the bottom with additional technical details about this campaign. Amazon is warning that a Russian-speaking hacker used multiple generative AI services as part of a campaign that breached more than 600 FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in five weeks. A new report by CJ Moses, CISO of Amazon Integrated Security, says that the hacking campaign occurred between January 11 and February 18, 2026, and did not rely on any exploits to breach Fortinet firewalls. Instead, the threat actor targeted exposed management interfaces and weak credentials that lacked MFA protection, then used AI to help automate access to other devices on the breached network. Moses says the compromised firewalls were observed across South Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, West Africa, Northern…

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Feb 21, 2026
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