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https://www.dailyherald.com/20250925/nation-and-world/us-government-scrambles-to-stop-new-hacking-campaign-blamed-on-china/
Federal agencies are racing to contain a new wave of sophisticated hacking by suspected Chinese attackers that took advantage of previously undiscovered flaws in widely used security software from networking company Cisco.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a rare emergency directive on Thursday, ordering all civilian agencies to test Cisco firewall equipment before midnight Friday to see if it had been breached. Agencies must immediately disconnect devices that have been compromised, the directive said.
The CISA said that hundreds of potentially vulnerable devices were installed in federal networks and that some operated by private firms were used to protect critical infrastructure.
Because firewall equipment polices traffic entering a computer network, hackers who control it can monitor, change or misdirect communications or allow additional unauthorized access. Cisco previously said the group involved behaved as if it were backed by a national government.
Federal agencies are racing to contain a new wave of sophisticated hacking by suspected Chinese attackers that took advantage of previously undiscovered flaws in widely used security software from networking company Cisco.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a rare emergency directive on Thursday, ordering all civilian agencies to test Cisco firewall equipment before midnight Friday to see if it had been breached. Agencies must immediately disconnect devices that have been compromised, the directive said.
The CISA said that hundreds of potentially vulnerable devices were installed in federal networks and that some operated by private firms were used to protect critical infrastructure.
Because firewall equipment polices traffic entering a computer network, hackers who control it can monitor, change or misdirect communications or allow additional unauthorized access. Cisco previously said the group involved behaved as if it were backed by a national government.
