Interesting….The number of hacked Cisco IOS XE devices has mysteriously plummeted from 50K to hundreds, and no one knows why.
Reboot or updated or....??
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The number of hacked Cisco IOS XE devices has mysteriously plummeted from 50K to hundreds
+7Best answer by dips
Don’t quote me on this but word on the street is that someone has been leveraging the vulnerability to perform a cleanup on affected devices.
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+7Don’t quote me on this but word on the street is that someone has been leveraging the vulnerability to perform a cleanup on affected devices.
Dipen N. K. | IT Security Specialist | Veeam Legend 2022 - 2025 | Cyber Security Space VUG Leader
+21Very interesting statistic there to drop that much. Be interested to see a response as to why.
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+7Cisco released the first fixed for 17.9.4a. You should download it from https://software.cisco.com/download/home and patch it.
Who knows what will happen next…
I hate mysteriously...
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