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AWS Warns Hackers Have Abused Cisco Firewall Zero-Day Since January

A prolific ransomware group has been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in a Cisco firewall product since January, according to a new analysis from AWS. AWS CISO, CJ Moses, warned yesterday that the Interlock operation had been using CVE-2026-20131 in attacks since January 26. CVE-2026-20131 is a remote code execution (RCE) flaw in the web-based management interface of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software. Given a maximum CVSS score of 10, it could “allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary Java code as root on an affected device,” according to Cisco. Thanks to a “misconfigured infrastructure server,” the AWS security team was able to gain rare and full visibility in Interlock’s operational toolkit, Moses said. Following initial access via zero-day…

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