{"id":235907,"date":"2026-04-25T06:09:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/firestarter-backdoor-hit-federal-cisco-firepower-device-survives-security-patches"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:09:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:09:57","slug":"firestarter-backdoor-hit-federal-cisco-firepower-device-survives-security-patches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/firestarter-backdoor-hit-federal-cisco-firepower-device-survives-security-patches","title":{"rendered":"FIRESTARTER Backdoor Hit Federal Cisco Firepower Device, Survives Security Patches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/firestarter-backdoor-hit-federal-cisco-firepower-device-survives-security-patches.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FIRESTARTER backdoor hit Cisco ASA in Sept 2025, persists after patching CVE-2025\u201320333, risking continued federal network access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIRESTARTER backdoor hit Cisco ASA in Sept 2025, persists after patching CVE-2025\u201320333, risking continued federal network access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}