{"id":243451,"date":"2026-09-01T05:14:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/chinalinked-fire-ant-hijacks-cisco-routers-to-steal-credentials-and-blind-security-logs"},"modified":"2026-09-01T05:14:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:14:55","slug":"chinalinked-fire-ant-hijacks-cisco-routers-to-steal-credentials-and-blind-security-logs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/chinalinked-fire-ant-hijacks-cisco-routers-to-steal-credentials-and-blind-security-logs","title":{"rendered":"ChinaLinked Fire Ant Hijacks Cisco Routers to Steal Credentials and Blind Security Logs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinalinked-fire-ant-hijacks-cisco-routers-to-steal-credentials-and-blind-security-logs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fire Ant compromises Cisco IOS XR routers and TACACS servers to capture traffic, harvest credentials, and suppress defensive telemetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire Ant compromises Cisco IOS XR routers and TACACS servers to capture traffic, harvest credentials, and suppress defensive telemetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243451","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=243451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}