FBI and Cisco Sound the Alarm: Russian Hackers Exploit Ancient Bug in Critical Infrastructure – Is Your Network Next?
Russian government spies are exploiting a seven-year-old bug in end-of-life Cisco networking devices to snoop around American critical infrastructure. Clearly, these devices are about as outdated as last year’s memes, and yet they’re still causing quite the cyber commotion. Time to update, folks, before the Russians snag your Wi-Fi password too!
Hot Take:
Can someone please check the expiration date on these digital milk cartons? It seems like the Russian cyber-crewbers, Static Tundra, and their merry band of mischief-makers are having a field day with Cisco’s expired networking devices. It’s like finding a treasure map to your organization’s secrets under the couch cushions of outdated technology! Seriously, who knew the secret to spying is simply not updating your software for seven years? If Cisco routers could talk, they’d be screaming “I need an upgrade, stat!”
Key Points:
– Russian government spies exploited a seven-year-old bug in outdated Cisco devices.
– The bug, CVE-2018-0171, was fixed by Cisco in March 2018, yet remains unpatched in some systems.
– The FBI and Cisco Talos attribute the attacks to the FSB’s Center 16, aka Static Tundra.
– The campaign targets strategic sectors such as telecommunications and manufacturing.
– Other state-sponsored actors might also be exploiting similar vulnerabilities.