Fortinet security flaw

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

Published 16-Oct-2026 08:32 UTC · First seen 16-Oct-2026 08:31 UTC

Sources

• The Hacker News · 16-Oct-2026