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.

The vendor said the memory-corruption defect was exploited to target specific people, but it did not describe the objectives of the attack.

Cisco has yet to release a patch for the actively exploited vulnerability, and attacks have been underway since at least late November.

Researchers warn that although exploitation of the zero-day is complex, a functional exploit exists in the wild.

The tech giant addressed a record-high number of defects for the year in its latest update.

The notorious ransomware group exploited multiple vulnerabilities, including a zero-day, for at least eight weeks before alleged victims received extortion demands.

Artificial intelligence was a recurring theme among federal leaders who spoke at a GDIT event held Thursday.

The defect, which affects the company’s most popular devices, has been exploited in an “extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals,” Apple said.

The China-affiliated espionage group, which CrowdStrike tracks as Murky Panda, has been linked to more than a dozen incident response cases since late spring.

Despite serious alarm raised by officials, organizations have not applied the patch for Microsoft Exchange servers en masse.