Hey All,

Just a feeler to see if anyone else is seeing this.

We have some Cisco switches we use as Layer 2/3 NTU's to talk to client 
equipment on the far ends of fibre links.

As of yesterday morning, all of these switches started a roughly 1-2 hour 
reboot outage.

All smartnet'ed, running latest recommended stable from cisco, and nothing in 
the logs other than a hard reset just occurred.

We have been additionally hardening the exposure of various interfaces (attacks 
were captured coming from resi ISP looking .mx domains), and it appears the one 
that has stopped the rot is disabling the "Smart Install" feature with a "no 
vstack" command, reload config from out config store and back to work...

TBH I didn't even know this protocol existed... a non-authenticated, on by 
default protocol that allows you to configure and image deploy on network 
equipment.

Like, its our own fault, but what the hell is this doing on by default?

Anyone else with Cisco or "Smart Install" equipment seeing an uptick in 
scanning/poking activity?

-Michael Carmody

(Ref: 
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170214-smi
 )
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