Mysterious drop in detected Cisco implants
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/number-of-hacked-cisco-ios-xe-devices-plummets-from-50k-to-hundreds/
The number of Cisco IOS XE devices hacked with a malicious backdoor implant has mysteriously plummeted from over 50,000 impacted devices to only a few hundred, with researchers unsure what is causing the sharp decline.
This week, Cisco warned that hackers exploited two zero-day vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-20198 and CVE-2023-20273, to hack over 50,000 Cisco IOS XE devices to create privileged user accounts and install a malicious LUA backdoor implant.
Mysterious drop in detected Cisco implants
Oct 22, 2023, 6:24pm UTC
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/number-of-hacked-cisco-ios-xe-devices-plummets-from-50k-to-hundreds/
> The number of Cisco IOS XE devices hacked with a malicious backdoor implant has mysteriously plummeted from over 50,000 impacted devices to only a few hundred, with researchers unsure what is causing the sharp decline.
> This week, Cisco warned that hackers exploited two zero-day vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-20198 and CVE-2023-20273, to hack over 50,000 Cisco IOS XE devices to create privileged user accounts and install a malicious LUA backdoor implant.