Sabotages in cyberspace in the hands of intelligence services, shut-down scam call centres and a critical flaw in MongoDB

Cyberspace has been changing faster in recent years than we could have imagined not long ago. Events of the past weeks, however, show that it is no longer just a technical discipline or the domain of security teams. It is becoming a space where states, organized crime and ordinary users meet – often without clear borders and rules.

In the second episode of the podcast Digitální mlha we, together with Janem Kopřivou, first look back at our predictions from last year. What did we get right? What, on the other hand, surprised us? And which events have stayed in our minds precisely because they reveal deeper trends rather than single incidents?

We move on to the topic of the growing role of states and intelligence services in cyberspace, where security policy increasingly overlaps with technology. Using concrete examples we then break down international operations against cybercrime, including raids on fraudulent call centres on Ukrajině. These cases show that targeted interventions against attackers' infrastructure can have an immediate and measurable impact.

The episode also covers the leak of sensitive Pornhub user data, which raises unpleasant questions about secondary risks – extortion, reputational damage and misuse of data that originated outside the direct control of the platform itself.

And last but not least we discuss the critical vulnerability MongoDB (MongoBleed), which once again reminded us how fragile the infrastructure that supports digital services is, and how quickly a technical problem can turn into a security incident of global scale.