{"id":208684,"date":"2025-03-14T09:21:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/new-superblack-ransomware-exploits-fortinet-auth-bypass-flaws"},"modified":"2025-03-14T09:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:21:42","slug":"new-superblack-ransomware-exploits-fortinet-auth-bypass-flaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/new-superblack-ransomware-exploits-fortinet-auth-bypass-flaws","title":{"rendered":"New SuperBlack ransomware exploits Fortinet auth bypass flaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-superblack-ransomware-exploits-fortinet-auth-bypass-flaws.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new ransomware operator named \u2018Mora_001\u2019 is exploiting two Fortinet vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access to firewall appliances and deploy a custom ransomware strain dubbed SuperBlack.<\/p>\n<p>The two vulnerabilities, both authentication bypasses, are CVE-2024\u201355591 and CVE-2025\u201324472, which Fortinet disclosed in January and February, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>When Fortinet first disclosed CVE-2024\u201355591 on January 14, they confirmed it had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/fortinet-discloses-second-firewall-auth-bypass-patched-in-january\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">exploited as a zero-day<\/a>, with Arctic Wolf stating it had been <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticwolf.com\/resources\/blog\/console-chaos-targets-fortinet-fortigate-firewalls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">used in attacks since November 2024<\/a> to breach FortiGate firewalls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new ransomware operator named \u2018Mora_001\u2019 is exploiting two Fortinet vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access to firewall appliances and deploy a custom ransomware strain dubbed SuperBlack. The two vulnerabilities, both authentication bypasses, are CVE-2024\u201355591 and CVE-2025\u201324472, which Fortinet disclosed in January and February, respectively. When Fortinet first disclosed CVE-2024\u201355591 on January 14, they confirmed it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}