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Risky Business #820 -- Asian fraud kingpin will face Chinese justice (pew pew!)

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 ChristmasVercel pays out a million bucks to improve its React2Shell WAF defences39C3 delivers; the pink Power Ranger deletes nazis, while a catgirl ruins GnuPGCambodian scam compound kingpin gets extradited to China, and we don’t think it’ll go well for himKrebs picks apart the Kimwolf botnet and residential proxy networksSo 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. Show notes US, Australia say ‘MongoBleed’ bug being exploited | The Record from Recorded Future NewsMerry Christmas Day! Have a MongoDB security incident. | by Kevin Beaumont | Dec, 2025 | DoublePulsarInside Vercel’s sleep-deprived race to contain React2Shell | CyberScoopgpg.failHacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference | TechCrunchChinese attackers exploiting zero-day to target Cisco email security products | The Record from Recorded Future NewsNi8mare  -  Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in n8n (CVE-2026-21858) | Cyera Research LabsServiceNow patches critical AI platform flaw that could allow user impersonation | CyberScoopAlleged cyber scam kingpin arrested, extradited to China | The Record from Recorded Future NewsFCC IoT labeling program loses lead company after China probe | Cybersecurity DiveTrump picks Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd to lead NSA spy agency - The Washington PostNSA cyber directorate gets new acting leadership | The Record from Recorded Future NewsDutch court sentences hacker who used port systems to smuggle cocaine to 7 years | The Record from Recorded Future NewsECLI:NL:GHAMS:2026:22, Amsterdam Court of Appeal, 23-003218-22The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network – Krebs on SecurityWho Benefited from the Aisuru and Kimwolf Botnets? – Krebs on SecurityCoupang recovers smashed laptop that alleged data leaker threw into river | The Record from Recorded Future NewsRansomware responders plead guilty to using ALPHV in attacks on US organizations | The Record from Recorded Future NewsNearly 480,000 impacted by Covenant Health data breach | The Record from Recorded Future NewsIllinois health department exposed over 700,000 residents' personal data for years | TechCrunchTech provider for NHS England confirms data breach | TechCrunchHacker claiming to be behind ManageMyHealth breach: ‘I do it for the money and I’m in negotiations to get it’ - NZ Herald
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