Chinese Hackers Exploiting Cisco Switches Zero-Day to Deliver Malware

July 2, 2024 at 02:08AM Velvet Ant, a Chinese cyber espionage group, has exploited a zero-day flaw in Cisco NX-OS Software to deliver custom malware and gain control over compromised Cisco Nexus devices. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-20399, allows an attacker with administrator credentials to execute commands as root. The impacted devices include various Nexus switches. Additionally, … Read more