F5 Labs published its 2026 cybersecurity predictions and scored its 2025 forecasts at 6.5/8, by its own assessment. The 2025 review cites AI-powered botnets, attacks on AI model APIs, AI side-channel attacks on cryptography, APT use of hacktivist personas, and expanded Roskomnadzor powers to isolate or reroute Russian internet traffic fro…
F5 Labs analyzes CVE-2025-23061 and its predecessor CVE-2024-53900, a CVSS 9.0 flaw in the Mongoose MongoDB client library that allows remote code execution on Node.js API servers. The bug abuses the populate method, which accepts a $where clause containing arbitrary JavaScript. The initial fix for CVE-2024-53900 blocked only top-level $w…
F5 Labs published its November 2025 AI Security Insights, drawn from the Comprehensive AI Security Index (CASI) and Agentic Resistance Scoring (ARS). Anthropic models took the whole top tier of the CASI leaderboard (Claude Haiku 4.5 at 95.89, Claude Sonnet 4.5 at 95.86, Claude Sonnet 4 at 95.33), while the GPT-5 family slipped, with GPT-5…
Huntress researchers detailed an SEO-poisoning campaign on 13 October that harvests SSL VPN credentials through a lookalike WatchGuard download page, watchguard-vpn.net, and then delivers the legitimate, validly signed Mobile VPN with SSL installer. Earlier waves used trojanised installers, but this iteration contains no malware, so endpo…
F5 Labs published its March 2026 CASI Leaderboard update, which is now dominated by OpenAI and Anthropic. Z.ai's GLM-5 performs well on price and capability but has a weak security posture (CASI 37.56 vs 96.61 for Claude Opus 4.6 and 92.58 for GPT-5.2). The report also spotlights Sugar-Coated Poison (SCP), a multi-turn technique that grad…
A Hacktron researcher argues that AI-assisted vulnerability research is rapidly widening the enterprise attack surface. He cites recent breaches at Vercel and GitHub and a wave of critical CVEs in F5, Fortinet, Cisco, Palo Alto and ImageMagick. According to the author, the Vercel compromise began with a breach of the AI platform Context.a…
F5 Labs' 2025 Advanced Persistent Bots Report analyzes more than 200 billion web and mobile API transactions from F5 Bot Defense customers between November 2023 and September 2024. It finds that 10.2% (21.22 billion) of requests were bots or automation. Of these, 4.8% were unwanted bots mitigated by F5, 3.5% were flagged automation and 2.…
F5 Labs assesses the security risks and rewards of Chinese open-weight LLMs (Qwen, GLM, Kimi, MiMo, MiniMax, DeepSeek). It finds that strong offensive and defensive cyber capability does not translate into consistent resistance to attack. Cited examples include Kimi K3 finding 19 vulnerabilities in Redis and GLM 5.2 being self-hosted by H…