Iranian & Russian Networks Attacked Using Cisco’s CVE-2018-0171 Vulnerability

(Source: BleepingComputer) Last night, a hacker group going under the name “JHT” attacked foreign network infrastructure, including Russian and Iranian networks, using the Cisco CVE-2018-0171 Smart Install vulnerability. Using this vulnerability the hackers were able to reset the routers back to their default configuration and display a message to …