Mallory pivots from this family to the IOCs, detections, and named campaigns that touch your stack, and pages you when something new lands.
1 CVE Mallory has correlated with this family across public research and vendor advisories. Each row links to the full Mallory page for that vulnerability.
Threat actors are actively exploiting CVE-2025-25249, a critical heap-based buffer overflow flaw affecting the cw_acd daemon in FortiOS and FortiSwitchManager. The flaw permits remote, unauthenticated arbitrary code execution through specially crafted requests to the CAPWAP Control service on UDP port 5246. | The attackers deploy a custom binary called fortirun.bin, orchestrated through Bash and Python automation scripts that repeatedly attempt exploitation against target IPs until successful.
3 distinct techniques documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.
2 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
A custom attacker binary used to automate repeated exploitation attempts against FortiGate targets, ultimately enabling deployment of the PivotC2 second-stage payload.
A custom attacker binary used to automate repeated exploitation attempts against vulnerable FortiGate targets, leading to reverse-shell access and deployment of the Node.js PivotC2 stager.
Match every observed IP, domain, and hash against your live telemetry.
Named campaigns wielding this family, with evidence pinned to each claim.
CVEs this family uses for access and lateral movement.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Every documented technique, ranked by evidence weight.
Reddit, Mastodon, and CTI community discussion around this family.