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Mysterious drop in detected Cisco implants

Mysterious drop in detected Cisco implants

a year ago
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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.