Cisco Patches an Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability

China-Nexus Hackers Velvet Ant Exploited the Bug in April, Cisco and Sygnia Say
Cisco on Monday patched a zero-day vulnerability discovered months ago that allowed a China-nexus hacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the compromised devices. The threat group, dubbed Velvet Ant, remotely connected to Cisco's NX-OS software used in switches and executed malicious code.

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