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CISA tells federal agencies to fix actively exploited F5 BIG-IP bug
2022-05-11 14:35

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a new security vulnerability to its list of actively exploited bugs, the critical severity CVE-2022-1388 affecting BIG-IP network devices. After info F5 BIG-IP exploits used in attacks to brick devices surfaced, CISA added the flaw to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.

Critical F5 BIG-IP vulnerability exploited to wipe devices
2022-05-10 22:50

A recently disclosed F5 BIG-IP vulnerability has been used in destructive attacks, attempting to erase a device's file system and make the server unusable. Last week, F5 disclosed a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-1388 that allows remote attackers to execute commands on BIG-IP network devices as 'root' without authentication.

Critical F5 BIG-IP vulnerability targeted by destructive attacks
2022-05-10 22:50

A recently disclosed F5 BIG-IP vulnerability has been used in destructive attacks, attempting to erase a device's file system and make the server unusable. Last week, F5 disclosed a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-1388 that allows remote attackers to execute commands on BIG-IP network devices as 'root' without authentication.

Hackers Actively Exploit F5 BIG-IP Bug
2022-05-10 12:35

Threat actors have started exploiting a critical bug in the application service provider F5's BIG-IP modules after a working exploit of the vulnerability was publicly made available. A shodan query shared by security researcher Jacob Baines revealed thousands of exposed BIG-IP systems on the internet, which an attacker can leverage to exploit remotely.

Researchers Develop RCE Exploit for the Latest F5 BIG-IP Vulnerability
2022-05-09 22:05

Days after F5 released patches for a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting its BIG-IP family of products, security researchers are warning that they were able to create an exploit for the shortcoming. The critical security vulnerability impacts the following versions of BIG-IP products -.

Hackers exploiting critical F5 BIG-IP bug, public exploits released
2022-05-09 15:20

Threat actors have started massively exploiting the critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-1388, which affects multiple versions of all F5 BIG-IP modules, to drop malicious payloads. F5 last week released patches for the security issue, which affects the BIG-IP iControl REST authentication component.

Hackers exploiting critical F5 BIG-IP flaw to drop backdoors
2022-05-09 15:20

Threat actors have started massively exploiting the critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-1388, which affects multiple versions of all F5 BIG-IP modules, to drop malicious payloads. F5 last week released patches for the security issue, which affects the BIG-IP iControl REST authentication component.

Attackers are attempting to exploit critical F5 BIG-IP RCE
2022-05-09 07:28

Researchers have developed PoC exploits for CVE-2022-1388, a critical remote code execution bug affecting F5 BIG-IP multi-purpose networking devices/modules. We have reproduced the fresh CVE-2022-1388 in F5's BIG-IP. Successful exploitation could lead to RCE from an unauthenticated user.

Exploits created for critical F5 BIG-IP flaw, install patch immediately
2022-05-08 16:35

Security researchers are warning F5 BIG-IP admins to immediately install the latest security updates after creating exploits for a recently disclosed critical CVE-2022-1388 remote code execution vulnerability. Last week, F5 disclosed a new critical remote code execution in BIG-IP networking devices tracked as CVE-2022-1388.

Week in review: F5 BIG-IP flaw, critical bugs in Aruba and Avaya network switches, Patch Tuesday forecast
2022-05-08 08:00

TLStorm 2.0: Critical bugs in widely-used Aruba, Avaya network switchesArmis researchers have discovered five critical vulnerabilities in the implementation of TLS communications in multiple models of network switches. Critical F5 BIG-IP flaw allows device takeover, patch ASAP!F5 Networks' BIG-IP multi-purpose networking devices/modules are vulnerable to unauthenticated remote code execution attacks via CVE-2022-1388.