Risky Business Podcast
January 14, 2026
Risky Business #820 -- Asian fraud kingpin will face Chinese justice (pew pew!)
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Risky Business returns for 2026! Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- Santa brings hackers MongoDB memory leaks for Christmas
- Vercel pays out a million bucks to improve its React2Shell WAF defences
- 39C3 delivers; the pink Power Ranger deletes nazis, while a catgirl ruins GnuPG
- Cambodian scam compound kingpin gets extradited to China, and we don’t think it’ll go well for him
- Krebs picks apart the Kimwolf botnet and residential proxy networks
- So many healthcare data leaks that we have a roundup section
This week’s episode is sponsored by Airlock Digital. The founders of the application allow-listing vendor, David Cottingham and Daniel Schell, discuss Microsoft’s ClickOnce .NET app packaging, and how attackers have been abusing it to load code. Airlock hates it when you load code!
This episode is also available on Youtube.
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Show notes
US, Australia say ‘MongoBleed’ bug being exploited | The Record from Recorded Future News
Inside Vercel’s sleep-deprived race to contain React2Shell | CyberScoop
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
Ni8mare - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in n8n (CVE-2026-21858) | Cyera Research Labs
ServiceNow patches critical AI platform flaw that could allow user impersonation | CyberScoop
Alleged cyber scam kingpin arrested, extradited to China | The Record from Recorded Future News
FCC IoT labeling program loses lead company after China probe | Cybersecurity Dive
Trump picks Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd to lead NSA spy agency - The Washington Post
NSA cyber directorate gets new acting leadership | The Record from Recorded Future News
ECLI:NL:GHAMS:2026:22, Amsterdam Court of Appeal, 23-003218-22
The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network – Krebs on Security
Who Benefited from the Aisuru and Kimwolf Botnets? – Krebs on Security
Nearly 480,000 impacted by Covenant Health data breach | The Record from Recorded Future News
Illinois health department exposed over 700,000 residents' personal data for years | TechCrunch
Tech provider for NHS England confirms data breach | TechCrunch