F5 Security Incident Advisory

Executive SummaryOn October 15, 2025, F5 Networks publicly disclosed a serious security breach involving a nation-state threat actor. The intruders maintained long-term, persistent access to F5’s internal systems—specifically the BIG-IP product development environment and engineering knowledge management platforms. F5 first detected unauthorized activity on August 9, 2025, but delayed public disclosure until ... Read More

Cisco Firewall and VPN Zero Day Attacks: CVE-2025-20333 and CVE-2025-20362

IntroductionOn September 25, 2025, Cisco released a security advisory to patch three security flaws impacting the VPN web server of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) software, which have been exploited in the wild. These three vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2025-20333, CVE-2025-20362, and CVE-2025-20363. The ... Read More

Mitigating Risks from the Shai-Hulud NPM Worm

IntroductionOn September 15th 2025, ReversingLabs (RL) researchers discovered a self-replicating worm called “Shai-Hulud” in the npm open-source registry. The worm autonomously spreads through the npm registry by hijacking maintainer accounts and injecting malicious code into public and private packages. Over 200 npm packages and more than 500 versions were compromised between September 14th and ... Read More