US Unveils Offensive Cyber Strategy as Critical Zero-Days in Cisco and Android See Active Exploitation
Summary
This 24-hour period is marked by a major shift in U.S. cybersecurity policy with the release of an aggressive, offensive-oriented national strategy. Concurrently, the operational landscape is highly active, with security agencies responding to the multi-year exploitation of a critical CVSS 10.0 flaw in Cisco SD-WAN and Google patching an actively exploited zero-day in hundreds of millions of Android devices. Geopolitical tensions manifest in a destructive wiper campaign by Iranian-aligned actors, while ransomware groups Anubis and INC Ransom continue to plague manufacturing and healthcare sectors across the globe.
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