Cisco has addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-20419 (CVSS score of 10.0), in Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem (Cisco SSM On-Prem) license servers that allows attackers to change any user’s password. The issue is due to an improper implementation in the password-change process. Threat actors can trigger the vulnerability by sending specially crafted HTTP…

As ransomware continues to be the scourge of enterprise security teams, Cisco’s Talos security intelligence group recently analyzed ransomware groups to identify common techniques and offer recommendations to help security team better protect their businesses. Cisco Talos reviewed 14 prominent ransomware groups between 2023 and 2024 and studied volume of attacks, impact on customers, and…

With new leadership, key acquisitions, and a platform-based vision, Cisco is betting big on security. Cisco’s dominance in networking and telecommunications products and services is well established, but its role in cybersecurity is less cemented. It has provided security software and network security appliances for some time, and it’s one of the dominant players in…

Cisco on Monday patched a zero-day vulnerability discovered months ago that allowed a China-nexus hacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the compromised devices. The threat group, dubbed Velvet Ant, remotely connected to Cisco’s NX-OS software used in switches and executed malicious code. The networking giant in an advisory attributes the discovery to cybersecurity…

A new malware campaign leveraged two zero-day flaws in Cisco networking gear to deliver custom malware and facilitate covert data collection on target environments. Cisco Talos, which dubbed the activity ArcaneDoor, attributing it as the handiwork of a previously undocumented sophisticated state-sponsored actor it tracks under the name UAT4356 (aka Storm-1849 by Microsoft). “UAT4356 deployed…

The first of the high-severity bugs, CVE-2024-20321, exists because External Border Gateway Protocol (eBGP) traffic “is mapped to a shared hardware rate-limiter queue”, allowing an unauthenticated, remote attacker to send large amounts of traffic and cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. According to Cisco, under certain conditions, the security defect impacts Nexus 3600 series switches and…

Cisco released several patches for high and critical vulnerabilities affecting several products like its Firepower network security devices, Identity Services Engine (ISE)) network access control platform, and Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA). The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert urging administrators to deploy the available patches because “a cyber threat actor could…

Cisco on Monday asked customers to urgently disable the HTTP Server feature on internet-facing systems that was discovered to have a critical vulnerability in its modular operating system’s web interface. Hackers exploited the IOS XE software web user interface feature to gain administrator-level privileges, effectively taking complete control of compromised devices, Cisco Talos said in…