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Endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools, and the analysts using them, have become incredibly effective. They have become so good, in fact, that we're now seeing a clear shift in adversary behavior: attackers are being pushed off the endpoint and onto places where EDR cannot run. This isn't just a theory. As I was writing a separate blog about a recent Cisco exploit which spurred an immediate CISA emergency directive, news dropped about another major network edge vendor, F5.

On October 23, 2025, Microsoft released an out-of-band security update for a critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-59287. The flaw stems from the deserialization of untrusted data in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), which allows remote, unauthenticated threat actors to achieve remote code execution by sending a crafted event. According to Microsoft, only Windows servers with the WSUS Server Role enabled are affected. This feature is not enabled by default.

I’ve spent my career building and defending. I’ve seen the beauty of innovation and the brutality of cyber warfare. I’ve sat shoulder-to-shoulder with security engineers and platform teams in the trenches at 3AM responding to state-backed attacks where context and speed meant survival. In those moments, one truth becomes painfully clear: With AI, that gap just became a chasm. Agentic AI didn’t bend the rules of software — it rewrote them. Code now evolves in real time.