Security Scan: FortiBleed: Global Compromise of 75,000 Forti

Summary

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Scan result: counts, verdicts, details, IPs, technologies, hashes/api/v1/result/9301bf99-0808-4f32-ad58-a003670a8ebc Domain and IP registration (RDAP)/api/v1/rdap/9301bf99-0808-4f32-ad58-a003670a8ebcHow often this domain was scanned/api/v1/domain/stats/socfortress.medium.com Scan history for this domain/api/v1/domain/history/socfortress.medium.com?limit=15

This website contacted 9 IPs in 1 country across 3 domains to perform 13 HTTP transactions. The main domain is medium.com and was registered 28 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://socfortress.medium.com/fortibleed-global-compromise-of-75-000-fortinet-firewalls-66d99a036e47

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #15,083 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 92%

Risk Score

Legitimate Medium article by SOCFortress analyzing a Fortinet firewall credential-compromise campaign. No forms, no impersonation of Fortinet, no threat-intel or hunting-rule hits; scanner block was ordinary bot protection.

Safety Factors (5)

Well-established domain registered in 1998 (Medium platform)

No credential, login or payment forms present

Content is attributed cybersecurity reporting/analysis, not a service solicitation

All third-party script hosts are top-1M ranked analytics/CDN services

Bot-protection challenge seen by the datacenter scanner is ordinary Cloudflare behavior on a legitimate site

Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

FortiBleed: Global Compromise of 75,000 Fortinet Firewalls | by SOCFortress | Mediumother network

Scan Type

public

Favicon Hash

MMH3: 988360492

MD5: d7f409a782f9152c38e5aa17f3927c9c

Domain Name Analysis

Within the commercial generic top-level domain (.com), 'socfortress.medium.com' is registered; it also runs on subdomain 'socfortress'. Count 6 characters in 'medium' with three vowels and 3 consonants. Splitting it apart reveals one word: medium. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

Medium Q Search Fortinet + NetworkSecurity + Cybersecurity FortiBleed: Global Compromise of 75,000 Fortinet Firewalls @ sOCFortress 4minread - Jun 19, Forti FortiBleed - 70,000+ Fortinet Firewa...

Page Load Overview

0.83s

Total Load Time

980 KB

Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English

Code: en

Confidence:80%

Script:Latin

Direction:ltr

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en

Text Length:6,716 chars

Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

corporate70% confidence

Type: spa

Method: structural

All Detected Categories

corporate

70%

Detected Features

OG: article

Schema.org

Domain & IP Information

Requests	IP Address	Location	AS Autonomous System
5	162.159.153.4Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
1	142.251.152.119Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
1	162.159.152.4Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
1	104.16.80.73Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
1	142.251.151.120Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
1	142.251.110.97Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
1	216.239.34.36Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
1	104.18.94.41Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
1	104.18.95.41Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
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