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Chinese Fire Ant hackers turn Cisco routers into spying platforms

Aug 31, 2026 // 20:57

The researchers discovered Fire Ant’s new tactic after finding an active GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) tunnel interface on a Cisco IOS XR router that could […]

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

Aug 31, 2026 // 12:10

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 […]