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Indonesia bank cyber attack fears: OJK says the banking system is safe and has put banks on 24-hour alert after threat-map screenshots went viral. No breach has been confirmed.
Read the story →Mae Sot mule account raid: Thai cyber police arrested three men running a fake nail salon that turned bank accounts into ready-to-use phones for scam and gambling networks.
Who Gives A Crap data breach: the Australian toilet paper brand says a US marketing software provider exposed customers' names, contact details and spend. No card data or passwords.
CyberArk research finds 95% of Asia Pacific and Japan organisations suffered two or more identity breaches, with machine identities the least protected.
Group-IB flagged 500+ phishing IPs and 1,900+ malware IPs for INTERPOL's Operation Synergia, which led to 31 arrests and hundreds of C2 server takedowns.
Every connectivity piece of Cloudflare One, its single-vendor SASE platform, is now generally available, including the Magic WAN Connector branch appliance.
Lumen's managed EDR service for Asia Pacific: AI detection on laptops and PCs, automatic rollback, a 24/7 SOC line, and an IDC security assessment called X-Secure.
Tim Liu of Hillstone Networks names the shifts he expects in 2024: AI threats, cloud gaps, a wider attack surface, human error and digital trust.
Jumio's Frederic Ho argues that biometrics alone won't stop bank fraud in Malaysia without liveness checks and risk scoring on each login.
Norman Willox and Tom Patterson argue that steal-now-decrypt-later attacks make quantum-safe encryption urgent, and set out a four-step plan to prepare.
Keysight's Keith Bromley explains how a visibility architecture of taps and a network packet broker lets companies get more years out of existing security tools.
Tony Teo of NETSCOUT Arbor on how DDoS moved from volumetric floods to application and stateful attacks, and why criminals still rely on it.
Cybereason's Eric Nagel and PLDT and Smart CISO Angel Redoble explain the Defend Forward strategy, the Cyber Defenders Council and why people still decide the fight.
ManageEngine's Subhalakshmi Ganapathy explains why Southeast Asian firms are exposed to breaches and leaks, and what adaptive security requires.
Veritas's Gary Sievers on rising ransomware in Asia Pacific, the security gap left by COVID-era transformation, and a protect, detect and recover framework.
RMM tools are known for automating IT chores for managed service providers. N-able argues its N-sight platform also closes security gaps for their clients.
A Tenable survey of 1,500 security professionals shows how firms entering the metaverse rate the risk of deepfake avatars, eavesdropping and phishing.
Synthetic identity fraud blends real and invented personal details into a new person. Why banks in Southeast Asia struggle to spot it and what detection relies on.
Ransomware hit several Singapore organisations in 2021. Cohesity's Threat Defense, DataGovern and Project Fort Knox aim to put prevention first.
Malaysia cyber attack: the National Security Council says NACSA is tracking incidents and system disruptions at several financial institutions, names none, and keeps the threat level at Moderate.
BIR data leak: the Philippines' Bureau of Internal Revenue is investigating claims that its data was leaked, with DICT, CICC and police, but hasn't said what may have been taken.
Bank Rakyat cyberattack: Malaysia's communications minister says a third-party-managed bank site was hacked and defaced, with no data stolen. The bank blames a supplier's technical problem.
QNAP NAS owners running Plex Media Server are reporting Plex2Shell compromises. QNAP says to update Plex to build 1.43.3.10861 and treat internet-facing boxes as breached.
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