{"id":192196,"date":"2024-07-02T15:09:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T20:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/cisco-warns-of-nx-os-zero-day-exploited-to-deploy-custom-malware"},"modified":"2024-07-03T00:11:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T05:11:39","slug":"cisco-warns-of-nx-os-zero-day-exploited-to-deploy-custom-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/cisco-warns-of-nx-os-zero-day-exploited-to-deploy-custom-malware","title":{"rendered":"Cisco warns of NX-OS zero-day exploited to deploy custom malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cisco-warns-of-nx-os-zero-day-exploited-to-deploy-custom-malware.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cisco has patched an NX-OS zero-day exploited in April attacks to install previously unknown malware as root on vulnerable switches.<\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity firm Sygnia, who reported the incidents to Cisco, linked the attacks to a Chinese state-sponsored threat actor it tracks as Velvet Ant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSygnia detected this exploitation during a larger forensic investigation into the China-nexus cyberespionage group we are tracking as Velvet Ant,\u201d Amnon Kushnir, Director of Incident Response at Sygnia, told BleepingComputer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco has patched an NX-OS zero-day exploited in April attacks to install previously unknown malware as root on vulnerable switches. Cybersecurity firm Sygnia, who reported the incidents to Cisco, linked the attacks to a Chinese state-sponsored threat actor it tracks as Velvet Ant. \u201cSygnia detected this exploitation during a larger forensic investigation into the China-nexus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192224,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192196\/revisions\/192224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}