The agency, which issued an emergency directive to federal agencies Thursday, said it took months to determine the root cause and mitigate the activity.
Cisco said it was investigating state-sponsored espionage attacks in May. CISA did not explain why it waited four months to issue an emergency directive.
Cisco Systems, Inc. logo and lettering can be seen on the Cisco Systems GmbH headquarters building in Garching near Munich (Bavaria). Cisco is a US company from the telecommunications industry and is primarily known for its routers and switches. (Photo by Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Cisco Systems has issued security updates to address a critical vulnerability in its widely deployed IOS and IOS XE network operating systems, after confirming the flaw is…
The actively exploited defect, triggered by an attacker’s use of a publicly available sample machine key, underscores the vendor and customers’ poor configuration practices.