Patched holes in Cisco routers have been used by Russians for years: Report

Russian government attackers have been exploiting unpatched and badly-configured Cisco Systems routers since 2021, according to an alert from U.S. and U.K. cybersecurity agencies. The vulnerabilities, which were publicized and patched in 2017, are in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) subsystem of Cisco’s IOS and IOS XE Software. They could allow an authenticated remote

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