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Cisco Firewall Manager hacked by Sandworm espionage implant and Qilin ransomware

Cisco FMC vulnerability CVE-2026-20079 (CVSS 10.0) is under active exploitation by Sandworm -- the Russian GRU hacking unit -- and a Qilin ransomware affiliate. Cisco Talos documented three attacker ...
Cisco

Cisco named a Leader in IDC MarketScape Hybrid Firewall Vendor Assessment

After a rigorous evaluation of nine enterprise hybrid firewall solution vendors, Cisco has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Enterprise Hybrid Firewall 2025 Vendor ...
Cisco

Cisco Simplifies Security for Managed Service Providers, Accelerating Their Hybrid Mesh Firewall Deployments and Business Growth

Cisco introduces foundational multi-customer management capabilities within Cisco Security Cloud Control, purpose-built for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). The innovation streamlines operations, ...
Help Net Security

New Cisco firewall malware can only be killed by pulling the plug

Suspected state-sponsored attackers are using a custom backdoor to persistently compromise Cisco security devices (firewalls), the US CISA and the UK National Cyber Security Centre warned on Thursday.
SDxCentral

Cisco firewalls at risk from Firestarter bug: CISA

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a high alert on malware affecting Cisco firewall products. In its advisory, CISA flagged a malware known as Firestarter. The threat ...
Cisco

Cisco Security Cloud Vision Comes to Life, Transforming Enterprise Defenses

Industry-first Cisco Hypershield bolsters hardware acceleration to analyze and respond to anomalies in application and network behavior, now supporting AMD Pensando Data Processing Units (DPUs) to be ...
CRN

CISA: ‘Emergency’ Response Needed Amid Cisco Firewall Attacks

A pair of zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance devices have been exploited in attacks, prompting CISA to issue an ‘emergency directive’ Thursday. Cyberattacks that have ...
BleepingComputer

Firestarter malware survives Cisco firewall updates, security patches

Cybersecurity agencies in the U.S. and U.K. are warning about a custom malware called Firestarter persisting on Cisco Firepower and Secure Firewall devices running Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) or ...
Network World

Cisco issues emergency patches for critical firewall vulnerabilities

Cisco has handed security teams one of the largest ever patching workloads affecting its firewall products, including fixes for two ‘perfect 10’ vulnerabilities in the company’s Secure Firewall ...
BleepingComputer

Cisco: Actively exploited firewall flaws now abused for DoS attacks

Cisco warned this week that two vulnerabilities, which have been used in zero-day attacks, are now being exploited to force ASA and FTD firewalls into reboot loops. The tech giant released security ...
InfoWorld

Cisco pushes IronPort smarts to firewalls

Cisco Systems will begin offering IronPort’s security filtering tools to its firewall customers after the networking giant’s acquisition of the company closes on June 25. On tour to evangelize the ...