![]() On March 29, Cisco had warned that at least 8.5 million switches are open to attack. A picture posted by Azari Jahromi shows the United States’ flag being in the background and a sentence that reads “don’t mess with our (US) elections.” Azari Jahromi has stressed that the attacks are not limited to Iran noting in another tweet that so far, more than 95 percent of switches have resumed their service.Ĭisco has issued a warning and urged Smart Install client users to patch and securely configure the software.Īttackers are exploiting a “protocol misuse” issue in Cisco’s Smart Install Client to gain entry to critical infrastructure providers, according to researchers at Cisco’s Talos Intelligence group.Ĭisco’s warning over the Smart Install client, a tool for rapidly deploying new switches, comes a week after it released a patch for a critical remote code execution flaw affecting the software. The Iranian minister has also said that initial investigations indicate the settings of switching software have been attacked. Iran’s Communication and Information Technology Minister Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi has confirmed the attack on the country’s datacentres in a tweet. This has been caused by a disruption or potential attack on the communications infrastructure network in the past few hours. ![]() Some reports indicate that some issues in the datacentres have created problems in using some of the popular sites, apps, and messengers in Iran as well many other countries. If a user does not configure or turn off the Cisco Smart Install, it will hang out in the background waiting for commands on what to do.įor a brief review of Iran’s achievements in various fields of science and technology, check the book “ Science and Technology in Iran: A Brief Review” ![]() Reports say that important Iranian services and websites have become out of reach due to a problem in the datacentres of major internet service providers Afranet, Shatel, Sabanet, etc.Īccording to a security report from the Cisco Talos team as many as 168,000 systems in the world may be affected by the flaw.Ī blog post by Cisco’s Talos security unit says the cyber-attacks are exploiting what Cisco officials are calling a “protocol misuse” situation in Cisco’s Smart Install Client, which is designed to enable the no-touch installation and deployment of new Cisco hardware, in particular Cisco switches.Īttackers have targeted a protocol issue with the Cisco Smart Install Client.
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