{"id":"thehackernews-a2dfa0394e06","seq":2948,"kind":"news","title":"PEERSTITCH Malware Deployed via FortiOS Flaw Bypasses Checks on Tagged VPN Sessions","url":"https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/attackers-exploit-fortios-flaw-to.html","permalink":"https://vulnpulse.app/items/thehackernews-a2dfa0394e06","summary":"A suspected advanced threat actor has been observed exploiting a security flaw in Fortinet FortiOS to deliver a previously unreported memory-resident ARM64 malware known as PEERSTITCH. The attack involves the exploitation of CVE-2025-61624 (CVSS score: 5.4), a path traversal flaw in the command line interpreter of FortiOS, FortiPAM, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager that could allow a","severity":null,"techs":[],"cves":["CVE-2025-61624"],"tags":["security"],"source":{"id":"thehackernews","name":"The Hacker News"},"published_at":"2026-10-16T04:59:36.000Z","fetched_at":"2026-10-21T16:17:48.024Z"}