Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2025-11-01 08:00 PDT
- ASD Warns of Ongoing BADCANDY Attacks Exploiting Cisco IOS XE Vulnerability
The Hacker News • 2025-11-01 06:43 • thehackernews.com
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has issued a bulletin about ongoing cyber attacks targeting unpatched Cisco IOS XE devices in the country with a previously undocumented implant known as BADCANDY.
The activity, per the intelligence agency, involves the exploitation of CVE-2023-20198 (CVSS score: 10.0), a critical vulnerability that allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create an
https://thehackernews.com/2025/11/asd-warns-of-ongoing-badcandy-attacks.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
