{"id":4187,"date":"2025-05-24T07:03:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T07:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/vicioustrap-uses-cisco-flaw-to-build-html\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T07:03:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T07:03:39","slug":"vicioustrap-uses-cisco-flaw-to-build-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/vicioustrap-uses-cisco-flaw-to-build-html\/","title":{"rendered":"ViciousTrap Uses Cisco Flaw to Build Global Honeypot from 5,300 Compromised Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    ViciousTrap Uses Cisco Flaw to Build Global Honeypot from 5,300 Compromised Devices<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that a threat actor codenamed ViciousTrap has compromised nearly 5,300 unique network edge devices across 84 countries and turned them into a honeypot-like network.<br \/>\nThe threat actor has been observed exploiting a critical security flaw impacting Cisco Small Business RV016, RV042, RV042G, RV082, RV320, and RV325 Routers (CVE-2023-20118) to corral them into<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/05\/vicioustrap-uses-cisco-flaw-to-build.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ViciousTrap Uses Cisco Flaw to Build Global Honeypot from 5,300 Compromised Devices Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that a threat actor codenamed ViciousTrap has compromised nearly 5,300 unique network edge devices across 84 countries and turned them into a honeypot-like network. The threat actor has been observed exploiting a critical security flaw impacting Cisco Small Business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-4187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}