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AI-Driven Cyber Attack Breaches 600 Firewalls Globally

First seen 21 Feb 2026, 06:18 UTC • Bloomberg

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In a span of five weeks, hackers exploited weak security measures to breach over 600 firewalls worldwide, utilizing commercial generative AI tools, as reported by Amazon.com Inc. The attackers, possibly a small group or a single individual, targeted vulnerabilities such as simple sign-in credentials and single-factor authentication.

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2026-02-20

Amazon reports breach of 600 firewalls using AI tools

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Investigation into the breach initiated

Attack Flow

12 entities, 19 inferred relationships (STIX 2.1).

Technique (6)

Data Breach
Phishing
Ransomware
T1021 - Remote Services
T1110 - Brute Force
T1566 - Phishing

Organization (1)

Amazon

Vulnerability (3)

CVE-2019-7192
CVE-2023-27532
CVE-2024-40711

Affected Platform (2)

Fortigate
Microsoft Office

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CVE-2019-7192 targets Fortigate
CVE-2019-7192 targets Microsoft Office
CVE-2023-27532 targets Fortigate
CVE-2023-27532 targets Microsoft Office
CVE-2024-40711 targets Fortigate
CVE-2024-40711 targets Microsoft Office
Data Breach targets Fortigate
Data Breach targets Microsoft Office
Phishing targets Fortigate
Phishing targets Microsoft Office
Ransomware targets Fortigate
Ransomware targets Microsoft Office
T1021 - Remote Services targets Fortigate
T1021 - Remote Services targets Microsoft Office
T1110 - Brute Force targets Fortigate
T1110 - Brute Force targets Microsoft Office
T1566 - Phishing targets Fortigate
T1566 - Phishing targets Microsoft Office
CVE-2019-7192 related to Amazon

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