Hackers Take on Cisco
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2024 10:05 am
In early April, hackers launched a massive attack on Cisco server equipment located in data centers around the world. As a result of the attack on network switches, several Russian service providers suffered, and many online publications, including the website of the popular newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, were temporarily unavailable. In some countries, the social network Twitter did not work.
Kaspersky Lab specialists reported that the attackers mainly peru phone number resource targeted RuNet, and the scale of this attack was quite serious. The hackers used a vulnerability called Cisco Smart Install Client, through which they changed the code on the device. According to Cisco, more than 168 thousand switches affected by this vulnerability are installed in data centers around the world.
Analysts at the Russian company Solar Security, which specializes in information security, believe that the attack on Cisco network equipment was aimed at the objects of the critical information infrastructure of the Russian Federation (CII). They came to this conclusion after analyzing the pool of addresses from which the attacks were carried out.
TelcoJournal editorial opinion : It is characteristic that Cisco warned about the vulnerability ten days before the attack and gave specific recommendations on how to avoid it. To do this, the system administrator only had to disable a certain function on the device. It is strange that this problem affected large data centers, where the requirements for information security are a priori high. However, as they say, until thunder strikes…
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Kaspersky Lab specialists reported that the attackers mainly peru phone number resource targeted RuNet, and the scale of this attack was quite serious. The hackers used a vulnerability called Cisco Smart Install Client, through which they changed the code on the device. According to Cisco, more than 168 thousand switches affected by this vulnerability are installed in data centers around the world.
Analysts at the Russian company Solar Security, which specializes in information security, believe that the attack on Cisco network equipment was aimed at the objects of the critical information infrastructure of the Russian Federation (CII). They came to this conclusion after analyzing the pool of addresses from which the attacks were carried out.
TelcoJournal editorial opinion : It is characteristic that Cisco warned about the vulnerability ten days before the attack and gave specific recommendations on how to avoid it. To do this, the system administrator only had to disable a certain function on the device. It is strange that this problem affected large data centers, where the requirements for information security are a priori high. However, as they say, until thunder strikes…
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