> Chinese Fire Ant hackers turn Cisco routers into spying platforms
[AUTHOR: Bill Toulas]
[DATE: 31/08/2026 14:52]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
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 not be explained by a running configuration or commit history. [...]