Security News > 2025 > April > Fortinet: Hackers retain access to patched FortiGate VPNs using symlinks
2025-04-11 16:08
Fortinet warns that threat actors use a post-exploitation technique that helps them maintain read-only access to previously compromised FortiGate VPN devices even after the original attack vector was patched. [...]
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