F5 warns that a ‘highly sophisticated nation-state threat actor’ was able to maintain long-term access to the company’s systems, and steal data, including details about undisclosed flaws.
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Yikes. Cybersecurity provider F5 is warning that state-sponsored hackers breached its systems and stole data, including details about undisclosed flaws for its products.
Seattle-based F5, which supplies application and cloud security, revealed this morning that it discovered the hackers inside its systems on Aug. 9. Although F5 has contained the breach, the hackers achieved “long-term, persistent access to certain F5 systems,” including BIG-IP, which is used to securely deliver app services on behalf of clients to users.
“Through this access, certain files were exfiltrated, some of which contained certain portions of the Company’s BIG-IP source code and information about undisclosed vulnerabilities that it was working on in BIG-IP,” the company said in an SEC filing.
