Attackers hit pair of critical Fortinet vulnerabilities the vendor disclosed in April

2026-06-17T20:51:40Zc71ac70f1a24b2b7742425afdc4ff1186f53237046b7aa796d357dfa682eb911
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What happened

Multiple CyberScoop items of note: attackers are actively exploiting a pair of critical Fortinet FortiSandbox vulnerabilities disclosed in April, with multiple threat actors observed rather than a single campaign. Google disclosed a long-running Chinese espionage group (UNC6508) that maintained undetected backdoors since 2023. Law enforcement disrupted major criminal operations: the FBI helped take down the China-based Outsider phishing/infrastructure network (estimated $1.9B losses) and US/France/Italy shut a large deepfake porn site. In AI/industry news, the US Commerce Department’s controls

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2026-06-17T20:51:40Z
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