In what is being described as one of the most consequential cyber-espionage operations of the year, US technology vendor F5 Networks has confirmed that nation-state threat actors successfully infiltrated its internal environment, stealing source code and vulnerability intelligence related to its flagship BIG-IP product line — a core networking and application delivery system used by…
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A sophisticated nation-state actor breached F5 systems, stealing BIG-IP source code and data on undisclosed flaw
F5 disclosed that a sophisticated nation-state actor breached its systems, stealing BIG-IP source code and data on undisclosed product vulnerabilities. Cybersecurity firm F5 disclosed that a highly sophisticated nation-state actor in August 2025 threat actors breached its systems and stole BIG-IP’s source code and information related to undisclosed vulnerabilities. The attackers accessed the company’s BIG-IP…
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F5 disclosures breach tied to nation-state threat actor
F5, a company that specializes in application security and delivery technology, disclosed Wednesday that it had been the target of what it’s calling a “highly sophisticated” cyberattack, which it attributes to a nation-state actor. The announcement follows authorization from the U.S. Department of Justice, which allowed F5 to delay public disclosure of the breach under…
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X suffered a DDoS attack. Its CEO and security researchers can’t agree on who did it.
Social media service X was hit by a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks Monday, which rendered the platform formerly known as Twitter inaccessible at times for users with intermittent outages and errors, according to researchers. The cause of those attacks has been much harder to discern. Elon Musk, the site’s owner, described the incident as…