Could the F5 Breach Expose a New Edge Security Gap? by Lucie Cardiet

F5 Networks disclosed a suspected nation-state compromise (Oct 15, 2025) in which attackers maintained covert, long-term access to production and product development environments—potentially up to 12 months—and exfiltrated BIG‑IP source code plus some customer configuration data, raising national-security and supply-chain risks for edge networking infrastructure; the report discusses detection visibility gaps and positions NDR/AI-driven monitoring as a mitigation.