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When Patching Isn’t Enough

Summary by gigaom.com
Executive Briefing What Happened: A stealthy, persistent backdoor was discovered in over 16,000 Fortinet firewalls. This wasn’t a new vulnerability – it was a case of attackers exploiting a subtle part of the system (language folders) to maintain unauthorized access even after the original vulnerabilities had been patched. What It Means: Devices that were considered “safe” may still be compromised. Attackers had read-only access to sensitive sys…
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gigaom.com broke the news in on Thursday, April 17, 2025.
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