Chinese Hackers Exploit Zero-Day Cisco Switch Flaw to Gain System Control

Details have emerged about a China-nexus threat group's exploitation of a recently disclosed, now-patched security flaw in Cisco switches as a zero-day to seize control of the appliances and evade detection. The activity, attributed to Velvet Ant, was observed early this year and involved the...

Exposed Docker APIs Under Attack in 'Commando Cat' Cryptojacking Campaign

Exposed Docker API endpoints over the internet are under assault from a sophisticated cryptojacking campaign called Commando Cat. "The campaign deploys a benign container generated using the Commando project," Cado security researchers Nate Bill and Matt Muir said in a new report published today...

CVE-2007-5421

Rejected reason: Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in Cisco IOS 12.x and IOS XR allow attackers to execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated via the "Bind Shell", "Reverse Shell", and "Two byte rootshell Tiny Shell" attacks. NOTE: the vendor and researcher agree that this issue does not cross...