From bleepingcomputer.com
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Public exploit code is now available for the critical Cisco IOS XE vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-20198 that was leveraged as a zero-day to hack tens of thousands of devices.
Cisco released patches for most releases of its IOS XE software but thousands of systems continue to be compromised, internet scans show.