{"id":100334,"date":"2025-10-15T16:05:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=936ef00df3699dc931c148ee550acff5"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:05:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:05:39","slug":"breach-of-f5-requires-emergency-action-from-big-ip-users-feds-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=100334","title":{"rendered":"Breach of F5 requires \u201cemergency action\u201d from BIG-IP users, feds warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2025\/10\/breach-of-f5-requires-emergency-action-from-big-ip-users-feds-warn\/\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: This feels less \"unprecedented\" and more, \"Aw, here we go again.\"  \nThe big proprietary outsourced security companies really do not seem to have their shit together, or any major structural incentive to get it together.<\/div><p>Thousands of networks&mdash;many of them operated by the US government and Fortune 500 companies&mdash;face an &ldquo;imminent threat&rdquo; of being breached by a nation-state hacking group following the breach of a major maker of software, the federal government warned Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>F5, a Seattle-based maker of networking software, <a href=\"https:\/\/my.f5.com\/manage\/s\/article\/K000154696\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disclosed the breach<\/a> on Wednesday. F5 said a &ldquo;sophisticated&rdquo; threat group working for an undisclosed nation-state government had surreptitiously and persistently dwelled in its network over a &ldquo;long-term.&rdquo; Security researchers who have responded to similar intrusions in the past took the language to mean the hackers were inside the F5 network <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberplace.social\/@GossiTheDog\/115378445416288653\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Unprecedented<\/h2>\n<p>During that time, F5 said, the hackers took control of the network segment the company uses to create and distribute updates for BIG IP, a line of server appliances that F5 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f5.com\/c\/emea-2020\/event\/f5-myforum\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says<\/a> is used by 48 of the world&rsquo;s top 50 corporations. Wednesday&rsquo;s disclosure went on to say the threat group downloaded proprietary BIG-IP source code information about vulnerabilities that had been privately discovered but not yet patched. The hackers also obtained configuration settings some customers used inside their networks.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2025\/10\/breach-of-f5-requires-emergency-action-from-big-ip-users-feds-warn\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2025\/10\/breach-of-f5-requires-emergency-action-from-big-ip-users-feds-warn\/#comments\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of networks\u2014many of them operated by the US government and Fo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=100334\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}