Sure, they do crimes. But the plausible deniability governments adore means they deserve a different label Cybercrime gangs like the notorious Lazarus group and spyware vendors like Israel's NSO should be considered cyber mercenaries – and become the subject of a concerted international response – according to a Monday report from …
Amid fears Beijing could harvest spatial data, letter suggests Huawei-style bans may be needed A US congressional committee has questioned whether Chinese-made Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) devices might have a negative impact on national security, and suggested they may therefore be worthy of the same bans that prevent …
Activists worry investigations may stay secret, and then there's those odd incident reporting requirements India's government has granted its Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT-In, immunity from Right To Information (RTI) requests – the nation's equivalent of the freedom of information queries in the US, UK, or Australia.... [...]
Hey Google, are the jails nicer in South Korea or the US? Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon – a wanted man in both South Korea and the United States – will soon face extradition from Montenegro after a court gave approval for his removal.... [...]
That GitHub repo an interviewer wants you to work on could be malware Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 has detailed a pair of job market hacking schemes linked to state-sponsored actors in North Korea: one in which the threat actors pose as job seekers, the other as would-be employers …
Chaebol already the subject of suits for a pair of past indiscretions Updated The UK division of Samsung Electronics has allegedly alerted customers of a year-long data security breach – the third such incident the South Korean giant has experienced around the world in the past two years.... [...]
University managment app also tracked library activity, holidays, and much more US-based research group IPVM has accused Chinese video surveillance equipment company Hikvision of engaging with a contract to develop technology that can identify Muslim students that are fasting during Ramadan, based on their dining records.... [...]
PLUS: Citrix quits China; Cambodia deports Japanese scammers; Chinese tech CEO disappears; and more Asia in brief Australia's National Cyber Security Coordinator has described an attack on logistics company DP World as a "nationally significant cyber incident."... [...]
CitrixBleed patch has been available for around a month China's largest bank, ICBC, was hit by ransomware that resulted in disruption of financial services (FS) systems on Thursday Beijing time, according to a notice on its website.... [...]
Won't say if it's LockBit, but LockBit appears to have claimed credit. Maybe payment, too Boeing has acknowledged a cyber incident just days after ransomware gang LockBit reportedly exfiltrated sensitive data from the aerospace defence contractor.... [...]
Alibaba service fined as Beijing calls for online platforms to name major creators and deploy kid-mode services China's Cyberspace Administration (CAC) has punished Alibaba-owned search engine Quark and livestreaming platform NetEase for content it deemed vulgar.... [...]
Countries signed on for India’s stack might watch out China-based scammers are using a combination of fake loan apps and India's real-time mobile payment system, Unified Payments Interface (UPI), to separate victims from their cash, according to a report by threat intel firm CloudSEK.... [...]
More malware scum using acessibility features to steal personal info Singapore-based infosec outfit Group-IB on Thursday released details of a new Android trojan that exploits the operating system's accessibility features to steal info that enables theft of personal information.... [...]
Kim Jong-un looks at industry's progress with green eyes, says South Korea's spy agency South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) has warned North Korea is attacking its shipbuilding sector.... [...]
Plus: Philippine state health insurance knocked offline by ransomware, China relaxes data export laws, and more Asia in brief Zhu Su, co-founder of fallen crypto business Three Arrows Capital (3AC), was arrested last Friday at Changi Airport in Singapore as he attempted to leave the country.... [...]
No, that does not mean you can leave it at home just yet Last week the internet was abuzz with talk that Singapore's commercial Changi airport was no longer going to require passports for clearance at immigration. Although it is true the paper documentation will be replaced by biometric …
Global tech companies' Bharat offices attract the wrong sort of interest India is grappling with a three-and-a-half year surge in cyber crime, with analysis suggesting cities like Bengaluru and Gurugram – centers of India's tech development – are hubs of this activity.... [...]
Part of network of crims who used 'trickery and threats' to target elderly, says US Attorney Two Indian nationals each received 41-month prison sentences for their involvement in $1.2 million worth of robocall scams targeting the elderly, according to the district of New Jersey’s attorney's office on …
Won't someone please think of the banks? Singapore officials announced on Monday that next month they will deliver a consultation paper detailing a split liability scheme that will mean both consumers and banks are on the hook for financial losses flowing from scams.... [...]
Running unsupported and unpatched versions of Exchange Server will do that to a country Sri Lanka's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) is currently investigating a ransomware attack on the government's cloud infrastructure that affected around 5,000 email accounts, it revealed on Tuesday.... [...]
PLUS: India calls for global action on AI and crypto; Vietnam seeks cybersecurity independence; China bans AI prescribing drugs Asia In Brief Taiwan-based infosec consultancy Team T5 has disputed Microsoft's alleged timeline of just when a Beijing-linked attack group named Flax Typhoon commenced its campaigns.... [...]
The My Number card mess remains unsolved as trust in e-government remains muted Japan’s digital minister has doubled down on a June promise to penalize himself for the poor rollout of the country’s digital ID, My Number Card, by offering up three months salary on Tuesday.... [...]
Claiming affiliation with Anonymous, e-hippies want more debate over radioactive flows Entities using the name and iconography of Anonymous (EUTNAIOA) claim to have conducted cyber protests against the Japanese government for actions related to the release of wastewater from the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant.... [...]
Paul Nakasone rates the Middle Kingdom a 'pacing challenge' The boss of US Cyber Command has opined that China's cyber and surveillance capabilities are not ahead of, or even comparable to, to those of the United States.... [...]
Regulator says with a straight face that it should not be allowed to analyze ethnicity China has released draft regulations to govern the country's facial recognition technology that include prohibitions on its use to analyze race or ethnicity.... [...]