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China's 'Fire Ant' campaign used compromised Cisco routers as platform for more attacks

The Record · · International · Data Breaches

A hacking operation dubbed Fire Ant "didn’t just compromise systems," according to researchers. "It compromised the trust layer those systems depend on."

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