26 August 2025

If You Have Not Bothered to Patch Software Since 2018...

You deserve whatever problems come your way. FBI warns of Russian hackers exploiting 7-year-old Cisco flaw

While some of this problem dates to 2021, the underlying issue was fixed in 2018.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned that hackers linked to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) are targeting critical infrastructure organizations in attacks exploiting a 7-year-old vulnerability in Cisco devices.

The FBI's public service announcement states that the state-backed hacking group, linked to the FSB's Center 16 unit and tracked as Berserk Bear (also known as Blue Kraken, Crouching Yeti, Dragonfly, and Koala Team), has been targeting Cisco networking devices using CVE-2018-0171 exploits to breach organizations worldwide.

Critical infrastructure that can't be bothered about network security? Someone needs to be fired. Probably someone in the C-suite with the title of CFO.

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