Cisco Confirms Salt Typhoon Exploited US Telecom Networks | IT Ne
In addition to using CVE-2018-0171 and other Cisco bugs to break into telecom networks, the China-sponsored APT is also using stolen login credentials for initial access. Following research reports last week that Salt Typhoon, the Chinese threat actor known for spying on communications networks, exploited a Cisco vulnerability to infiltrate major US telecommunications providers last fall — including […]