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Aug 31 2026 Chinese Fire Ant hackers turn Cisco routers into spying platforms

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The researchers discovered Fire Ant's new tactic after finding an active GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) tunnel interface on a Cisco IOS XR router that could not be explained by a running configuration or commit history. [...]

Posted by Bill Toulas on Mon 31 August 2026 in BleepingComputer.

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