Number of hacked Cisco IOS XE devices plummets from 50K to hundreds

The number of Cisco IOS XE devices hacked with a malicious backdoor implant has mysteriously plummeted from over 50,000 impacted devices to only a few hundred, with researchers unsure what is causing the sharp decline. [...]

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