Fire Ant: China-Nexus Actor Burrows into Cisco IOS XR Routers

Sygnia details Fire Ant, a China-nexus cluster overlapping UNC3886, hijacking Cisco IOS XR routers, TACACS+ servers and Linux hosts with stealth implants and log suppression.

2026-08-31T22:30:36.878Z
Rudra Verma, Senior Security Architect & Researcher