The company said in a statement that it urged customers to take immediate action to update their software. The company did not provide details about the breach, but said its origins date back to earlier this year.
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Technology company Cisco Systems has announced that hackers have destroyed some of its digital security equipment and infiltrated government networks around the world.
The company said in a blog post published Wednesday that its adaptive security appliances (devices that combine several different digital defenses into one) have a previously unknown vulnerability, dubbed “UAT4356.” He said it was exploited by a group of hackers.
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The blog post described the group as “sophisticated state-backed activists” and said its research had found victims “engaged in government networks around the world.” Cisco said the vulnerability has been patched.
The company said in a statement that it urged customers to take “immediate action” to update their software. The company did not provide details of the breach, which it said dates back to earlier this year.
Security equipment such as routers and other so-called edge devices are becoming increasingly popular vehicles for sophisticated hackers because they exist at the perimeter of a target's network and are difficult to monitor.
Cisco warned in a post that it has seen evidence that UAT4356 hackers are “interested in and may attack” network devices from Microsoft and other vendors.
Microsoft did not immediately reply to the email.
“At this time, we have seen no evidence that this activity is impacting U.S. government networks,” the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said in a statement. CISA issued a warning about the Cisco vulnerability on Wednesday.
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