Over 5 million records from 25 organizations posted to black hat forum Amazon employees' data is part of a stolen trove posted to a cybercrime forum linked to last year's MOVEit vulnerability.... [...]

10,000 of Kim Jong Un's soldiers believed to be headed for front line The EU has joined US and South Korean officials in expressing concern over a Russian transfer of technology to North Korea in return for military assistance against Ukraine.... [...]

India makes it onto list of likely threats for the first time A report by Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE) revealed that state-backed actors have collected valuable information from government networks for five years.... [...]

Release the Kraken! China has accused unnamed foreign entities of using devices hidden in the seabed and bobbing on the waves to learn its maritime secrets.... [...]

Google and WhatsApp also binned, which is far easier to explain than canning a local hero Hong Kong’s government has updated infosec guidelines to restrict the use of Chinese messaging app WeChat, alongside Meta and Google products like WhatsApp and Google Drive, on computers it operates.... [...]

Chipzilla says it obeys the law wherever it is, which is nice Intel has responded to Chinese claims that its chips include security backdoors at the direction of America's NSA.... [...]

Also: Crypto-hub Binance helps Delhi police shut down solar power scam IBM announced on Tuesday it has acquired Prescinto – a Bangalore-based provider of asset performance management software for renewable energy.... [...]

With an off-the-shelf D-Wave machine, but only against very short keys Chinese researchers claim they have found a way to use D-Wave's quantum annealing systems to develop a promising attack on classical encryption.... [...]

Acknowledges bulk customer data leak weeks after Telegram channels dangled it online Leading Indian health insurance provider Star Health has admitted to being the victim of a cyber attack after criminals claimed they had posted records of 30-milion-plus clients online.... [...]

Plus: SpaceX plans Vietnam investment; Yahoo ! Japan content moderation secrets; LG offloads Chinese display factory; and more ASIA IN BRIEF It's not often The Register writes about a cryptocurrency outfit being on the right side of a scam or crime, but last week crypto exchange Binance claimed it helped …

Taipei laughs it off – and so does Beijing, which says political slurs hit sites nobody reads anyway Taiwan has dismissed Chinese allegations that its military sponsored a recent wave of anti-Beijing cyber attacks.... [...]

Illegal goods allegedly shipped to the US labeled as toys or jewels The US Attorney's Office in the District of Massachusetts has seized more than 350 internet domains allegedly used by Chinese outfits to sell US residents kits that convert semiautomatic pistols into fully automatic guns – and silence them …

Minister reckons dedicated cops necessary to protect digital transactions India has announced a plan to train a specialized wing of 5000 "Cyber Commandos" in the next five years, as part of its efforts to address cyber crime.... [...]

Sueball suggests outsourcer went out of bounds by developing competing product A subsidiary of IT outsourcer Cognizant filed a lawsuit on Friday in Texas federal court alleging that rival Infosys was involved in stealing trade secrets and engaging in anticompetitive behavior.... [...]

Payment arm of Korean messaging app denies any illegal activity Kakao Pay, a subsidiary of Korea's WhatsApp analog Kakao, handed over data from more than 40 million users to the Singaporean arm of Chinese payment platform Alipay, without user consent, Korea's financial watchdog revealed Tuesday.... [...]

There's a blockchain involved so it's totally going to stop you getting those calls India’s Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) on Tuesday directed telcos to stop calls from unregistered telemarketers – and prevent them from using networks again for up to two years – as part of an effort to curb …

Bad guys claim they're cops, keep you on hold for hours until you pay to make loved ones' crimes go away A woman in the Indian city of Delhi last week found herself under "digital arrest" – a form of scam in which victims make payments to criminals posing as …

Went at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified Acronis, the Swiss disaster recovery turned cybersecurity firm and catch-all for managed service providers, has been majority acquired by Europe’s largest private equity firm, EQT.... [...]

Singapore Ministry of Education orders software removed after string of snafus UK-based mobile device management vendor Mobile Guardian has admitted that on August 4 it suffered a security incident that involved unauthorized access to iOS and ChromeOS devices managed by its tools, which are currently unavailable. In Singapore, the …

Eighty-one apps signed up to pilot facial recognition and real name ID system Chinese app developers have signed up to beta test a national cyberspace ID system that will use facial recognition technology and the real names of users, according to Chinese media.... [...]

First delays, then data leaks – now fraud detection needed at point of use The Japanese government has released details of of an app that verifies the legitimacy of its troubled My Number Card – a national identity document.... [...]

SMS OTPs are overused, so bring on the tokens and biometrics India's central bank on Wednesday proposed a requirement for dynamically generated second authentication factors for most digital payments.... [...]

Follows requirement for social media and messaging platforms to get a license Legislation for an internet "kill switch" will reach Malaysia’s Parliament in October, according to the country's minister for Law and Institutional Reform.... [...]

Because clearly it's better for Beijing to know who you are than for every ISP and social service to keep its own records Beijing may soon issue "cyberspace IDs" to its citizens, after floating a proposal for the scheme last Friday.... [...]

If it can happen to folks that run social engineering defence training, what hope for the rest of us? Cybersecurity awareness and training provider KnowBe4 hired a North Korean fake IT worker for a software engineering role on its AI team, and only realized its mistake once the guy …