Security News

Ongoing Cyber Attacks Exploit Critical Vulnerabilities in Cisco Smart Licensing Utility
2025-03-21 05:09

Two now-patched security flaws impacting Cisco Smart Licensing Utility are seeing active exploitation attempts, according to SANS Internet Storm Center. The two critical-rated vulnerabilities in...

Critical Cisco Smart Licensing Utility flaws now exploited in attacks
2025-03-20 19:05

Attackers have started targeting Cisco Smart Licensing Utility (CSLU) instances unpatched against a vulnerability exposing a built-in backdoor admin account. [...]

Will Cisco’s Free Tech Training for 1.5M People Help Close EU’s Skills Gap?
2025-03-14 20:50

Cisco’s training through its Networking Academy will help “build a resilient and skilled workforce ready to meet Europe’s digital transformation and AI objectives.”

Cisco IOS XR vulnerability lets attackers crash BGP on routers
2025-03-14 16:44

Cisco has patched a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability that lets attackers crash the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) process on IOS XR routers with a single BGP update message. [...]

Cisco warns of Webex for BroadWorks flaw exposing credentials
2025-03-04 18:40

Cisco warned customers today of a vulnerability in Webex for BroadWorks that could let unauthenticated attackers access credentials remotely. [...]

Cisco, Hitachi, Microsoft, and Progress Flaws Actively Exploited—CISA Sounds Alarm
2025-03-04 04:39

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added five security flaws impacting software from Cisco, Hitachi Vantara, Microsoft Windows, and Progress WhatsUp Gold to...

CISA tags Windows, Cisco vulnerabilities as actively exploited
2025-03-03 17:51

CISA has warned US federal agencies to secure their systems against attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Cisco and Windows systems. [...]

PolarEdge Botnet Exploits Cisco and Other Flaws to Hijack ASUS, QNAP, and Synology Devices
2025-02-27 09:20

A new malware campaign has been observed targeting edge devices from Cisco, ASUS, QNAP, and Synology to rope them into a botnet named PolarEdge since at least the end of 2023. French cybersecurity...

Cisco Confirms Salt Typhoon Exploited CVE-2018-0171 to Target U.S. Telecom Networks
2025-02-21 07:38

Cisco has confirmed that a Chinese threat actor known as Salt Typhoon gained access by likely abusing a known security flaw tracked as CVE-2018-0171, and by obtaining legitimate victim login...

Chinese hackers breach more US telecoms via unpatched Cisco routers
2025-02-14 12:56

China's Salt Typhoon hackers are still actively targeting telecoms worldwide and have breached more U.S. telecommunications providers via unpatched Cisco IOS XE network devices. [...]