Researchers said the vulnerabilities, which attackers are chaining together, were first exploited three weeks before the vendor disclosed and patched the defects.
Researchers found artifacts in the code that proved AI was heavily involved. A prominent cybercrime group planned to exploit the zero-day en masse for financial gain.
Attackers are hitting a frequent target in the network edge space, intruding victim networks through a defect in a widely used mobile endpoint security product.
The global campaign marks the second series of multiple actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco edge technology since last spring. The similarities don’t end there.