Miyako Sues Over Sale of Access to Unidentified Venezuelan Bank
On November 20, 2025, miyako announced on DarkForums the sale of unauthorized access to an undisclosed Venezuelan bank. The post describes access to a FortiOS firewall with administrator and CLI privileges. The bank has not been identified, and no official confirmation or independent forensic evidence has been found.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
Public evidence describes the sale of FortiOS Admin+CLI access to an unidentified Venezuelan bank. It does not confirm any data breach, unauthorized transactions, operational disruption, or subsequent exploitation.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Intrusions
- Subtype
- privileged account compromise
- Confidence
- Low
ZONE.CI documents a report in which an actor offers access to FortiOS Admin+CLI to an unidentified Venezuelan bank. Public evidence supports a report of unauthorized sale of privileged access, not a confirmed data breach.
Severity assessment
High- Information impact
- Credentials
- Affected scope
- Organization-wide
- Critical service
- Potential
- Public confidence
- Moderate
If authentic, the alleged Admin+CLI access to a banking firewall is high severity because it could enable privileged access to the network. Confidence remains low because the victim has not been identified, and there is no confirmation from the victim or independent technical validation.
Timeline
Miyako announced the sale of alleged FortiOS Admin/CLI access to an unidentified Venezuelan bank.