Kim Jong Un's cyber-goons aren't above attacking the regime's few friends Two North Korean hacker groups had access to the internal systems of Russian missile and satellite developer NPO Mashinostoyeniya for five to six months, cyber security firm SentinelOne asserted on Monday. The attack illustrates potential North Korean efforts …
Mysterious Team Bangladesh has carried out 846 attacks since June 2022, mostly DDoS Hacktivism may have dropped off of organization radars over the past few years, but it is now very visibly coming from what is believed to be Bangladesh, thanks to a group tracked by cybersecurity firm Group-IB …
Some say retaliation for sanctions, but Beijing says it just wants world peace China introduced restrictions on Monday that mean would-be exporters will require a license to ship certain drones and related equipment out of the Middle Kingdom.... [...]
GPU giant says you can't stop secondary sales, surveillance gear maker maintains innocence Updated Video surveillance equipment maker Hikvision was paid $6 million by the Chinese government last year to provide technology that could identify members of the nation's Uyghur people, a Muslim ethnic majority, according to physical security …
PRC semiconductor exports curiously rose 19% y-o-y for first 9 months of 2022 Chinese companies, including state-owned defense companies, are evading tech sanctions and fueling Moscow’s war in Ukraine, according to a US report released on Thursday.... [...]
Will make regulating China’s 5G telecom equipment look like a cinch Chinese made AI-enabled products should spark similar concerns to Middle Kingdom sourced 5G equipment and therefore be regulated, said think tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) on Thursday.... [...]
In hindsight, it's probably good practice to give clients access to cloud logs Microsoft announced on Wednesday it would provide all customers free access to cloud security logs – a service usually reserved for premium clients – within weeks of a reveal that government officials' cloud-based emails were targets of an …
In hindsight, it's probably good practice to give clients access to cloud logs Microsoft announced on Wednesday it would provide all customers free access to cloud security logs – a service usually reserved for premium clients – within weeks of a reveal that government officials' cloud-based emails were targets of an …
Also more fiery, with vague but firm orders to create a 'security barrier' Over the weekend Chinese president Xi Jinping gave a directive to officials to build a Beijing-supervised "security barrier" around its internet.... [...]
Lends credence to theory that Pyongyang is testing ballistic missiles against international rules A North Korean satellite allegedly designed for reconnaissance was not viable for its alleged intended purpose, according to South Korea's military on Wednesday.... [...]
Digital payment skeptics of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but grifters and crims Singapore has joined the ranks of nations requiring digital payment operators to follow the same sort of regulations and customer protection requirements that apply to conventional financial institutions.... [...]
Cybercrooks hoping users have whispered employer secrets to chatbot Singapore-based threat intelligence outfit Group-IB has found ChatGPT credentials in more than 100,000 stealer logs traded on the dark web in the past year.... [...]
Think of it as a fake Google tuned for credential capture and you'll understand why authorities want to kill it North Korea has created a fake version of South Korea's largest internet portal, Naver, in a large scale phishing attempt, Seoul's National Intelligence Service (NIS) said on Wednesday.... [...]
Resilience against threats needs a boost China's cyber-ops against the US have shifted from espionage activities to targeting infrastructure and societal disruption, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Jen Easterly told an Aspen Institute event on Monday.... [...]
PLUS: Vietnam's free domain names for youngsters; China's Cuba spy base; Hyundai and Samsung team for car chips; and more Asia In Brief India's government has denied its Co-WIN COVID-19 vaccination management platform has leaked data, but ordered an investigation into the program's security.... [...]
India tops the charts for document theft The number of stolen Asian credit card numbers appearing on darkweb crime marts has fallen sharply, cyber security firm Group-IB told Singapore's ATxSG conference on Thursday.... [...]
Living in the eye of the geopolitical storm is not easy, but is good for business In late September 2021, staff at Taiwanese threat intelligence company TeamT5 noticed something very nasty: a fake news report accusing it of conducting phishing attacks against Japan's government and local tech companies.... [...]
All should change this year as the country passes its Cyber Security Bill Sri Lanka's Ministry of Technology has confirmed it will have a cyber security authority – at some point.... [...]
FBI warns jobseekers to be very skeptical of working holidays in Cambodia The FBI has issued a warning about fake job ads that recruit workers into forced labor operations in Southeast Asia – some of which enslave visitors and force them to participate in cryptocurrency scams.... [...]
PMFault – from the eggheads who brought you Plundervolt and Voltpillager Video Presenting at Black Hat Asia 2023, two infosec researchers detailed how remote updates can be exploited to modify voltage on a Supermicro motherboard and remotely brick machines.... [...]
Spectre-esque exploit figures out when interesting info might be in memory Black Hat Asia Arm issued a statement last Friday declaring that a successful side attack on its TrustZone-enabled Cortex-M based systems was "not a failure of the protection offered by the architecture."... [...]
The threat is coming from inside the supply chain Black Hat Asia Miscreants have infected millions of Androids worldwide with malicious firmware before the devices even shipped from their factories, according to Trend Micro researchers at Black Hat Asia.... [...]
Retaliation or national security? Beijing sent a message to foreign businesses this week when it launched an investigation into Shanghai-based Capvision Partners on the grounds of national security, accusing the consultancy firm of failure to prevent espionage.... [...]
ALSO: Australia says offensive hacking is working; DJI hit with $279m patent suit; Philippines Police leak data; and more Asia In Brief Chinese scientists have estimated the mass of the Milky Way.... [...]
When admitting to an error isn't seen as a failure, improvement easy to achieve, says pilot-turned-CISO To improve security, the cybersecurity industry needs to follow the aviation industry's shift from a blame culture to a "just" culture, according to ISACA director Serge Christiaans.... [...]