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April 24, 2025


A smorgasbord of knowledge and news

A threat actor that has been using known old FortiOS vulnerabilities to breach FortiGate devices for years has also been leveraging a clever trick to maintain undetected read-only access to them after the original access vector was locked down.


LLMs' tendency to "hallucinate" code packages that don't exist could become the basis for a new type of supply chain attack dubbed "slopsquatting".


When participating in a Zoom call, you can grant remote control of your computer to others. While this feature may come in handy when dealing with trusted family, friends and colleagues, threat actors have started abusing it to install malware on targets' computer.

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