Cisco Firewalls Breached by 'Firestarter' Malware; Critical RCE Flaw Hits Hugging Face AI
Summary
This 24-hour period is marked by high-impact threats, including a joint US-UK alert on 'Firestarter' malware creating persistent backdoors in Cisco firewalls. A critical, unpatched remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-25874) was disclosed in Hugging Face's popular LeRobot AI platform. Meanwhile, critical infrastructure vendor Itron reported a cyberattack, and Microsoft confirmed active exploitation of a Windows Shell flaw (CVE-2026-32202) previously leveraged by Russian state actors.
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