Novel Cisco NX-OS zero-day leveraged by Chinese hackers

Chinese state-backed hacking group Velvet Ant targeted Cisco network switches with NX-OS software impacted by the newly discovered zero-day, tracked as CVE-2024-20399, as part of a cyberespionage attack in April, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

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