The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned that hackers linked to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) are targeting critical infrastructure organizations in attacks exploiting a 7-year-old vulnerability in Cisco devices.

The FBI's public service announcement states that the state-backed hacking group, linked to the FSB's Center 16 unit and tracked as Berserk Bear (also known as Blue Kraken, Crouching Yeti, Dragonfly, and Koala Team), has been targeting Cisco networking devices using CVE-2018-0171 exploits to breach organizations worldwide.

Successful exploitation of CVE-2018-0171, a critical vulnerability in the Smart Install feature of Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE software, can allow unauthenticated threat actors to remotely trigger a reload of unpatched devices, potential

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