Cisco

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Affairs

Cisco warned customers of a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20198 (CVSS score 10), in its IOS XE Software that is actively exploited in attacks. The IT giant found the vulnerability during the resolution of multiple Technical Assistance Center (TAC) support cases. The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to gain administrator privileges and take…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Cisco’s massive $28 billion acquisition of Splunk in September was the financial highlight of a quarter during which several other vendors also made strategic purchases to position themselves for emerging enterprise requirements around cloud, application, and identity security. The acquisitions added to a better-than-expected quarter ended Sept. 30, 2023, with venture funding also picking up…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: DataBreach Today

Cisco has released urgent fixes to a critical vulnerability affecting an emergency communication system used to track callers’ location in real time. A developer inadvertently hard-coded credentials in Cisco Emergency Responder tracking and routing software, opening up a permanent backdoor for potential unauthenticated attackers. At some point in the development cycle, static user credentials for…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: CSO Online

Cisco patched authentication, privilege escalation, and denial-of-service vulnerabilities this week in several of its products, including one that’s used for identifying the location of 9-1-1 emergency callers. The flaw in Cisco Emergency Responder is caused by the presence of default static credentials for the root account that were used during development but were never removed….

Network Security

Issued by: DataBreach Today

It turns out SIEM isn’t on life support after all. Cisco is providing 28 billion reasons to believe enterprises aren’t scrapping the security operations center staple anytime soon. Rivals with other types of security technology have attempted to write SIEM’s obituary for years. In December 2022, Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora said, “I feel…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Affairs

Cisco warns that a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-20269) in Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) is actively exploited by ransomware groups to gain initial access to corporate networks. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability to conduct a brute force attack in an attempt to identify valid username and password combinations…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

A critical security vulnerability in Cisco’s SD-WAN vManage software could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain read and limited write permissions, and access data. The bug carries a score of 9.1 out of 10 on the CVSS vulnerability-severity scale, and it exists in the vManage API, which is used to monitor and configure Cisco…

Network Security

Issued by: CSO Online

Cisco’s innovative technologies help connect the dots of its network- and cloud-based ecosystem. A tremendous number of enterprises and service providers view Cisco as the nexus of their network, security, and cloud operations. At the company’s Cisco Live customer and partner conference in June, Cisco boldly connected the dots of a network- and cloud-based ecosystem…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: CSO Online

An easy-to-use exploit was publicly released this week for a patched vulnerability that affects the widely used Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Cisco Secure Client applications for Windows. Attackers could leverage the exploit to elevate their privileges on a victim’s system and take full control of it. Cisco Secure Client for Windows, previously known…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: CSO Online

APT28, the hacking arm of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency has been backdooring Cisco routers by exploiting a remote code execution vulnerability in the Cisco IOS implementation of the simple network management protocol (SNMP), according to a statement by Western security agencies. The malware deployed on compromised routers patches the router’s authentication mechanism to always…