ArcaneDoor hackers exploit Cisco zero-days to breach govt networks

From bleepingcomputer.com

​Cisco warned today that a state-backed hacking group has been exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities in Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) firewalls since November 2023 to breach government networks worldwide.

The hackers, identified as UAT4356 by Cisco Talos and STORM-1849 by Microsoft, began infiltrating vulnerable edge devices in early November 2023 in a cyber-espionage campaign tracked as ArcaneDoor.

Even though Cisco has not yet identified the initial attack vector, it discovered and fixed two security flaws—CVE-2024-20353 (denial of service) and CVE-2024-20359 (persistent local code execution)—that the threat actors used as zero-days in these attacks.

Cisco became aware of the ArcaneDoor campaign in early January 2024 and found evidence that the attackers had tested and developed exploits to target the two zero-days since at least July 2023.

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