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As many as 2 million Cisco devices affected by actively exploited 0-day
Search shows 2 million vulnerable Cisco SNMP interfaces exposed to the Internet.
“The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) became aware of successful exploitation of this vulnerability in the wild after local Administrator credentials were compromised,” Wednesday’s advisory stated. Making SNMP devices accessible to Internet interfaces is frowned upon because it unnecessarily exposes networks to precisely these sorts of risks. Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and passwords.
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