Risky Business #811 -- F5 is the tip of the crap software iceberg
Adam Boileau·2025-10-22·via Risky Business
Risky Business Podcast
October 22, 2025
Presented by
Adam Boileau
Co-host at large
Patrick Gray
CEO and Publisher
In this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
China has been rummaging in F5’s networks for a couple of years
Meanwhile China tries to deflect by accusing the NSA of hacking its national timing system
Salesforce hackers use their stolen data trove to dox NSA, ICE employees
Crypto stealing, proxy-deploying, blockchain-C2-ing VS Code worm charms us with its chutzpah
Adam gets humbled by new Linux-capabilities backdoor trick
Microsoft ignores its own guidance on avoiding BinaryFormatter, gets WSUS owned.
This episode is sponsored by Push Security. Co-founder and Chief Product Officer Jacques Louw joins to talk through how Push traced a LinkedIn phishing campaign targeting CEOs, and the new logging capabilities that proved critical to understanding it.