Symbolic Links Planted by Attackers Survived Patching, Provide Read-Only Access. Attackers have been using a new type of post-exploitation technique to maintain remote access to hacked Fortinet FortiGuard devices – even if they had the latest patches – by dropping symbolic links in the device’s filesystem designed to survive the patching process, the vendor has warned.
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