Security News > 2015 > August > Cisco Warns Customers About Attacks Installing Malicious IOS Bootstrap Images (Threatpost)
2015-08-12 18:01
Cisco is warning enterprise customers about a spike in attacks in which hackers use valid credentials on IOS devices to log in as administrators and then upload malicious ROMMON images to take control of the devices. The ROM Monitor is the program that initializes the hardware and software on IOS devices, and an attacker who […]
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