How the NSA snooped on Cisco Customers for a Decade | Ars Technica
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The article reports that analysis of leaked NSA tools (tied to the Equation Group and Shadow Brokers disclosures) revealed an exploit called BenignCertain that remotely extracted encryption keys from Cisco PIX firewalls. This capability allowed the NSA to decrypt VPN traffic and impersonate remote users, illustrating long-running, nation-state exploitation of vulnerabilities in networking products and linking those tools to earlier Snowden and Shadow Brokers revelations.
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