3 posts tagged with "Critical Infrastructure"

The security bill for pandemic-era infrastructure deployments has arrived—with devastating interest. Edge devices hastily deployed during 2020 lockdowns have become the most exploited attack surface of 2025, responsible for 67% of initial breach vectors. Nation-state groups are systematically hunting VPN gateways, firewalls, and remote access solutions that were "temporarily" deployed five years ago and never properly secured. With $47 billion in breach costs tied to edge compromises this year, the time for emergency action is now.

On January 14, 2025, Fortinet disclosed CVE-2024-55591, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting thousands of FortiGate firewalls worldwide. With active exploitation since November 2024 and 48,000 internet-facing devices at risk, this represents one of the most severe infrastructure vulnerabilities of early 2025. This emergency guide provides technical analysis, detection methods, and immediate response actions.

On February 21, 2024, the American healthcare system experienced one of its most significant cyber incidents when Change Healthcare, a critical technology backbone processing 15 billion healthcare transactions annually, fell victim to the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group. The attack's ripple effects demonstrated a harsh reality: our critical infrastructure remains dangerously vulnerable to sophisticated cyber threats.