{"id":3349,"date":"2025-04-17T10:03:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/over-16-000-fortinet-devices-compromised-with-symlink-backdoor\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T10:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:03:58","slug":"over-16-000-fortinet-devices-compromised-with-symlink-backdoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/over-16-000-fortinet-devices-compromised-with-symlink-backdoor\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 16,000 Fortinet devices compromised with symlink backdoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Over 16,000 Fortinet devices compromised with symlink backdoor<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Over 16,000 internet-exposed Fortinet devices have been detected as compromised with a new symlink backdoor that allows read-only access to sensitive files on previously compromised devices. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Lawrence Abrams<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/over-16-000-fortinet-devices-compromised-with-symlink-backdoor\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 16,000 Fortinet devices compromised with symlink backdoor Over 16,000 internet-exposed Fortinet devices have been detected as compromised with a new symlink backdoor that allows read-only access to sensitive files on previously compromised devices. [&#8230;] Lawrence Abrams Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}