North Korean malware interviews, FortiGate firewall compromised, Cisco zero-day & Citrini Research AI future / Intel Chat [#298]

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.

• GitLab’s Threat Intelligence Team published detailed findings on North Korean activity associated with the Contagious Interview campaign and broader IT worker operations.
• A financially motivated, Russian-speaking threat actor used generative AI tools to compromise more than 600 Fortinet FortiGate firewall instances between January and February, according to Amazon Web Services.
• Cisco has released emergency patches for a critical zero-day vulnerability in its Catalyst SD-WAN products that has been actively exploited in the wild.
• Citrini Research presents a forward-looking scenario framed as a June 2028 macro memo describing a “Global Intelligence Crisis” triggered by abundant AI-driven intelligence.

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