Inside FortiBleed: Reverse Engineering the CyberStrike Harvester Behind a Global FortiGate Credential Factory

FortiBleed is a large-scale credential-harvesting and monetization campaign targeting internet-facing Fortinet FortiGate devices worldwide; recovered CyberStrike-branded tooling (harvester, FortiGate sniffer panel), cracking infrastructure (Hashcat/Hashtopolis and a Telegram orchestration bot), credential-cleaning and AD/SMB post-auth tooling convert captured configs and traffic into crackable hashes and validated VPN/SMB access for prioritized file-share collection and exfiltration — remediation requires immediate session invalidation, credential rotation, MFA, and restricting management interfaces.