Fresh Bug Used to Deploy Rootkits on Cisco Devices
Trend Micro researchers have discovered a new malicious campaign targeting unpatched Cisco devices, using a recently fixed zero-day vulnerability to deploy rootkits that hide deep within network firmware.
The flaw, CVE-2025-20352 (CVSS 7.7), affects all supported versions of Cisco IOS and IOS XE, the operating systems powering much of