The FBI warns Russian computer pirates pointing to an old Cisco security failure, so patch now




  • The FBI has warned Russian computer pirates who abuse CVE-2018-0171
  • The “thousands” configuration files of Cisco devices were already stolen
  • The error affects many obsolete final points, so patch now

The threat actors sponsored by the Russian State are abusing a Cisco vulnerability of years to spy organizations in the West, the FBI warns.

In a public service advertisement published on the IC3 website, the FBI said that Centro 16, an actor of threats linked to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), exploiting the simple network management protocol (SNMP) and a vulnerability in cases of intelligent Cisco (SMI) installation that reached the end of life.

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