Cisco Surveying Vulnerability Study Found In Counterfeit Switches Cybers Guards
An IT organization utilized the fake Cisco Catalyst 2960-X series switches. After the counterfeit devices were found in fall 2019, F-Secure was called in to perform an investigation. After a software update the switches stopped working, which led the IT company to discover that it had been using fake Cisco equipment unknowingly. An inspection of the two devices, which seemed to look and function just like authentic Cisco products, revealed the existence of a vulnerability which allowed bypassing secure boot mechanisms designed to protect devices from firmware manipulation....