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China-Linked Fire Ant Hijacks Cisco Routers to Steal Credentials and Blind Security Logs

A China-nexus cyber espionage actor tracked as Fire Ant has expanded a long-running campaign beyond VMware hypervisors to compromise Cisco IOS XR routers, Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS) servers, and Linux management hosts used to route, authenticate, and manage high-value networks. Sygnia, the incident response firm that investigated the intrusion, said the actor

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China-Linked Fire Ant Hijacks Cisco Routers to Steal Credentials and Blind Security Logs

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VIES Uptime, Measured — 28 Member States, One Sample Every 15 Minutes

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Originally published on hexisteme notes . On 2026-08-14, a screen-metric experiment in my YouTube Shorts pipeline ended undeterminable.

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A Better SQL in 11 Lines of Code

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