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Active exploitation of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center vulnerabilities

Cisco Talos · · International · Surveillance & Civil Liberties

Cisco Talos is actively tracking the exploitation of two vulnerabilities in Cisco’s Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software.

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