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GreyNoise

25,000 IPs Scanned Cisco ASA Devices — New Vulnerability Potentially Incoming

2025-09-04 · Read original ↗

ATT&CK techniques detected

3 predictions
T1190Exploit Public-Facing Application
97%
"exploited vulnerabilities ( kev ) catalog. resurgent brute force attacks against cisco ssl vpns after investigating activity against our cisco profiles, greynoise identified resurgent brute force attacks targeting cisco ssl vpns occurring yesterday at approximately 1 : 00pm est. …"
T1588.006Vulnerabilities
68%
"25, 000 ips scanned cisco asa devices — new vulnerability potentially incoming update : 9 october greynoise identified a connection between three campaigns targeting cisco, palo alto, and fortinet firewalls and vpns. we observed infrastructure overlap between recent cisco asa sca…"
T1588.006Vulnerabilities
41%
"##s were observed scanning asa devices. - 2, 858 did not match this client signature. - meaning roughly 14, 000 of the ~ 17, 000 ips active that day — more than 80 % — were tied to this botnet. the client signature was seen alongside a suite of closely related tcp signatures, sug…"

Summary

GreyNoise observed two scanning surges against Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) devices in late August including more than 25,000 unique IPs in a single burst. This activity represents a significant elevation above baseline, typically registering at less than 500 IPs per day.