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Widespread Hack Hits Cisco Firewalls Via Zero-Day Flaws

The US is urging companies and government agencies to patch newly discovered flaws in Cisco firewall products, warning that an advanced hacking group is already exploiting them. On Thursday, the US’s ...
Network World

Cisco nixes conference session on hacking IOS router code

Cisco this week asked that a presentation on how to hack its IOS router software be pulled from a security conference in Las Vegas. A presentation called “The Holy Grail: Cisco IOS Shellcode Remote ...
CRN

Cisco Router Firmware Hacks Attributed To China-Linked Group

Government agencies in the U.S. and Japan say that a group known as BlackTech has been observed compromising Cisco routers and installing backdoors for maintaining access. Hackers linked to the People ...
Dark Reading

Russian Fancy Bear APT Exploited Unpatched Cisco Routers to Hack US, EU Gov't Agencies

As recently as 2021, the notorious Russian APT28 was exploiting network routers running outdated versions of Cisco's IOS and IOS XE operating system software, using them to deploy backdoors in ...
Bleeping Computer

Cisco patches IOS XE zero-days used to hack over 50,000 devices

Cisco has addressed the two vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-20198 and CVE-2023-20273) that hackers exploited to compromise tens of thousands of IOS XE devices over the past week. The free software release ...
SDxCentral

Cisco phishing hack trades on credibility and redirects

Cisco's trusted security reputation is being used against users as part of an email phishing scheme. According to email security firm Raven AI, attackers have weaponized Cisco Safe Links, a feature ...