{"id":28905,"date":"2019-09-05T13:39:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T13:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/30470\/Chinese-APT-Now-Leveraging-Pulse-And-Fortinet-VPN-Servers.html"},"modified":"2019-09-05T13:39:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T13:39:37","slug":"chinese-apt-now-leveraging-pulse-and-fortinet-vpn-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/chinese-apt-now-leveraging-pulse-and-fortinet-vpn-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese APT Now Leveraging Pulse And Fortinet VPN Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"img aspect-set\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet2.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2019\/09\/05\/7c23003e-6796-43c3-b987-702aeb1c9576\/8b3dfa1f514974a333a74d1a133b0114\/server-rack-vpn-router-switch.jpg\" class alt=\"server rack vpn router switch\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A group of Chinese state-sponsored hackers is targeting enterprise VPN servers from Fortinet and Pulse Secure after details about security flaws in both products became public knowledge last month.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks are being carried out by a group known as APT5 (also known as Manganese), ZDNet has learned from sources familiar with the attacks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireeye.com\/content\/dam\/fireeye-www\/current-threats\/pdfs\/rpt-southeast-asia-threat-landscape.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to a FireEye report<\/a>, APT5 has been active since 2007, and &#8220;appears to be a large threat group that consists of several subgroups, often with distinct tactics and infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FireEye says the group has targeted or breached organizations across multiple industries, but its focus appears to be on telecommunications and technology companies primarily, and taking a special interest in satellite communications firms.<\/p>\n<h3>APT5 attacks began last month<\/h3>\n<p>Starting in late August, a subgroup of the larger APT5 umbrella group appears to have set up infrastructure through which they started conducting internet scans to search for Fortinet and Pulse Secure VPN servers.<\/p>\n<p>APT5 was among the first to start scanning the internet and then later attempt to exploit two vulnerabilities in the two VPN server products.<\/p>\n<p>Details about these two vulnerabilities were presented two weeks before, <a href=\"https:\/\/i.blackhat.com\/USA-19\/Wednesday\/us-19-Tsai-Infiltrating-Corporate-Intranet-Like-NSA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at the Black Hat USA security conference<\/a>, in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<section class=\"sharethrough-top\" data-component=\"medusaContentRecommendation\" data-medusa-content-recommendation-options=\"{&quot;promo&quot;:&quot;promo_ZD_recommendation_sharethrough_top_in_article_desktop&quot;,&quot;spot&quot;:&quot;dfp-in-article&quot;}\">\n<\/section>\n<p>Both vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-13379 for Fortinet and CVE-2019-11510 for Pulse Secure) are so-called &#8220;pre-auth file reads,&#8221; which allow an attacker to retrieve files from the VPN server without needing to authenticate.<\/p>\n<p>APT5 &#8212; and other threat groups &#8212; were using these two vulnerabilities to steal files storing password information or VPN session data from the affected products. These files would have allowed attackers to take over vulnerable devices.<\/p>\n<p>Sources who observed the APT5 attacks said they weren&#8217;t in a position to determine if the group was successful in breaching the devices.<\/p>\n<h3>Targeted VPN servers are high-end products<\/h3>\n<p>Both Fortinet&#8217;s Fortigate SSL VPN and Pulse Secure&#8217;s SSL VPN products are extremely popular. For example, Fortinet&#8217;s Fortigate VPN is the absolute market leader, with over 480,000 Fortigate SSL VPN servers operating across the world.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side, Pulse Secure&#8217;s SSL VPN is considered the SSL VPN market&#8217;s most high-end product, being installed to protect access to internal networks at many Fortune 500 companies, the internet&#8217;s biggest tech firms, and government agencies.<\/p>\n<p>According to threat intelligence firm Bad Packets LLC, there are around 42,000 Pulse Secure VPN servers available online.<\/p>\n<h3>Many companies failed to patch<\/h3>\n<p>Both the Fortinet and Pulse Secure vulnerabilities were discovered earlier this year by security researchers from a company named Devcore.<\/p>\n<p>The issues were reported to both vendors in March, and patched by both vendors with the utmost urgency, Devcore said in two blog posts describing both issues [<a href=\"https:\/\/devco.re\/blog\/2019\/08\/09\/attacking-ssl-vpn-part-2-breaking-the-Fortigate-ssl-vpn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/devco.re\/blog\/2019\/09\/02\/attacking-ssl-vpn-part-3-the-golden-Pulse-Secure-ssl-vpn-rce-chain-with-Twitter-as-case-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2<\/a>]. Pulse Secure released a patch <a href=\"https:\/\/kb.pulsesecure.net\/articles\/Pulse_Security_Advisories\/SA44101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in April<\/a>, and Fortinet followed with their own <a href=\"https:\/\/fortiguard.com\/psirt\/FG-IR-18-384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, owners of these two SSL VPN servers appear to have failed to install these patches. The reasons for not doing so vary.<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, there have been many Fortinet customers who reported on social media that they didn&#8217;t even know that there was a security fix available for the Fortigate VPN, let alone that they had to patch.<\/p>\n<p>The company did not return a request for comment sent earlier this week, seeking more information. However, Fortinet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortinet.com\/blog\/business-and-technology\/fortios-ssl-vulnerability.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published a blog post days before<\/a>, on August 28, bring the issue of its May patch into the attention of its site readers once more.<\/p>\n<h3>Pulse Secure warned and contacted customers<\/h3>\n<p>On the other hand, Pulse Secure was a lot more active in notifying customers, but that didn&#8217;t mean clients heeded the company&#8217;s advice.<\/p>\n<p>A scan in mid-August found that almost 14,500 of the 42,000 Pulse Secure SSL VPN servers were still running a vulnerable version. A second scan performed last week found that the number barely went down, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bad_packets\/status\/1167921834542563329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reaching 10,500<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the blame here doesn&#8217;t seem to be on Pulse Secure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We not only issued a public Security Advisory &#8211; SA44101, but commencing that day in April, we actively informed our customers, partners and service providers of the availability and need for the patch via email, in-product alerts, on our community site, within our partner portal, and our customer support web site,&#8221; Scott Gordon, Chief Marketing Officer at Pulse Secure, told ZDNet in an email, describing the company&#8217;s efforts to notify customers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our customer success managers have also been directly contacting and working with customers,&#8221; he added. &#8220;In addition, Pulse Secure support engineers have been available 24&#215;7, including weekends and holidays, to help customers who need assistance to apply the patch fix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We also offered assistance to customers to apply the patch fix for these vulnerabilities even if they were not under an active maintenance contract,&#8221; Gordon said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Customers that still need assistance should contact Pulse Secure support using the contact information on the following URL: <a href=\"https:\/\/support.pulsesecure.net\/support\/support-contacts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/support.pulsesecure.net\/support\/support-contacts\/<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Gordon said that these efforts have been fruitful, as the majority of the company&#8217;s customers had successfully applied the patch by late August.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, not all customers have heeded the company&#8217;s advice, and these organizations might end up paying a steeper price later down the road.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese APTs (advanced threat groups) don&#8217;t just breach into foreign targets (companies, government organizations, universities) for the purpose of intelligence gathering or political cyber-espionage. They also steal intellectual property, which many times makes its way into the hands of Chinese competitors, hurting the hacked companies for years to come in ways many didn&#8217;t expect.<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/30470\/Chinese-APT-Now-Leveraging-Pulse-And-Fortinet-VPN-Servers.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[7680],"class_list":["post-28905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity-blogs","tag-headlinehackerprivacychinaflawcyberwarbackdoorcryptography"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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