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Cisco has released patches for a high-severity Integrated Management Controller vulnerability with public exploit code that can let local attackers escalate privileges to root. "A vulnerability in the CLI of the Cisco Integrated Management Controller could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform command injection attacks on the underlying operating system and elevate privileges to root," the company explains.
Cisco is warning about a global surge in brute-force attacks targeting various devices, including Virtual Private Network (VPN) services, web application authentication interfaces, and SSH...
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Cisco warns about a large-scale credential brute-forcing campaign targeting VPN and SSH services on Cisco, CheckPoint, Fortinet, SonicWall, and Ubiquiti devices worldwide. The researchers say the attacks started on March 18, 2024, while all attacks originate from TOR exit nodes and various other anonymization tools and proxies, which the threat actors use to evade blocks.
Hackers have managed to compromise a telephony provider for Duo, the Cisco-owned company providing secure access solutions, and steal MFA SMS message logs of Duo customers."The threat actor downloaded message logs for SMS messages that were sent to certain users under your Duo account between March 1, 2024 and March 31, 2024," the Cisco Data Privacy and Incident Response Team notified its MSP partners.
Cisco Duo's security team warns that hackers stole some customers' VoIP and SMS logs for multi-factor authentication messages in a cyberattack on their telephony provider. In emails sent to customers, Cisco Duo says an unnamed provider who handles the company's SMS and VOIP multi-factor authentication messages was compromised on April 1, 2024.
Cisco has shared a set of recommendations for customers to mitigate password-spraying attacks that have been targeting Remote Access VPN services configured on Cisco Secure Firewall devices. The company says that the attacks have also been targeting other remote access VPN services and appear to be part of reconnaissance activity.
Cisco has fixed two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its Cisco Secure Client enterprise VPN and endpoint security solution, one of which could be exploited by unauthenticated, remote attackers to grab users' valid SAML authentication token."The attacker could then use the token to establish a remote access VPN session with the privileges of the affected user," Cisco says, but notes that "Individual hosts and services behind the VPN headend would still need additional credentials for successful access."
Cisco has released patches to address a high-severity security flaw impacting its Secure Client software that could be exploited by a threat actor to open a VPN session with that of a targeted...