{"id":20045,"date":"2026-04-24T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/firestarter-backdoor-hit-federal-cisco-firepower-device-survives-security-patches-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:06:00","slug":"firestarter-backdoor-hit-federal-cisco-firepower-device-survives-security-patches-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/firestarter-backdoor-hit-federal-cisco-firepower-device-survives-security-patches-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRESTARTER Backdoor Hit Federal Cisco Firepower Device, Survives Security Patches info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed that an unnamed federal civilian agency&#8217;s Cisco Firepower device running Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software was compromised in September 2025 with malware called FIRESTARTER.<br \/>\nFIRESTARTER, per CISA and the U.K.&#8217;s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), is assessed to be a backdoor designed for remote access and<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/firestarter-backdoor-hit-federal-cisco.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed that an unnamed federal civilian agency&#8217;s Cisco Firepower device running Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software was compromised in September 2025 with malware called FIRESTARTER. FIRESTARTER, per CISA and the U.K.&#8217;s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), is assessed to be a backdoor designed for remote access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}