The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have released an advisory alerting to cyber assaults conducted by the China-associated Salt Typhoon perpetrators aimed at infiltrating significant worldwide telecommunications companies as a component of a cyber espionage initiative.
The assailants took advantage of a crucial Cisco IOS XE software vulnerability (CVE-2023-20198, CVSS score: 10.0) to gain entry to configuration.