NESSUS SCANNER AGENTS WENT OFFLINE DUE TO A FAULTY PLUGIN UPDATE

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Tenable disabled two Nessus scanner agent versions due to a faulty plugin update that caused agents to go offline. The company released Nessus Agent v10.8.2 to address the issue and has advised customers to upgrade to this version or downgrade to 10.7.3 to resolve offline agent problems. Plugin feed updates were temporarily paused to prevent further issues.