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Signs your phone is hacked: a draining battery and unknown apps point to spyware, but the operator-side tapping alleged in the Prabowo case leaves no trace on the handset.
Philippine police raided a Pasay City scam hub on 3 November, rescuing 159 foreigners. Workers posed as Indonesian and Vietnamese police to scare parcel recipients into moving money.
Singapore Airlines Amadeus data breach: about 46,000 SIA booking records were accessed through Amadeus, and 620 may include contact and travel document details. No card or bank data, SIA says.
Financial comparison site MoneySmart says customer data in Singapore and Hong Kong was copied from its systems. Hong Kong's PCPD puts it at about 305,000 local records; Singapore's PDPC is investigating.
Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs has introduced a bill making reformative training or imprisonment the default for scam and scam-enabling offenders aged 21 and below, after the High Court swapped such sentences for probation.
Binance has finished the zero-knowledge proof for its 31 October reserves snapshot and plans the next withdrawal phase for 3 November. In the region, Thailand's SEC is monitoring exposure and Indodax says it closed a security gap.
Mumbai's Mulund police arrested six people over a mule-account network that police link to 255 cyber fraud complaints worth about ₹72 crore. It began with a WhatsApp message impersonating a company owner.
Binance says it has been talking to the Securities Commission and Bank Negara Malaysia for 10 months about a licence, five years after it was ordered to stop operating there and weeks after the SC re-listed it.
Hunt.io found logs showing 27 database backups named after POEA and OFW systems were copied in September. The National Privacy Commission is investigating; DMW hasn't commented.
Pakistan's cybercrime agency raided a call centre in Rawalpindi and detained 130 Malaysians accused of phoning victims in Malaysia while posing as bank staff and police. PDRM may send investigators.
Malaysia Airlines says customer data processed through Amadeus from August 2023 to September 2026 may have been exposed. Korean Air, Asiana and Japan Airlines are also affected.
From 2 November, every outgoing call from the Singapore Police Force shows 6000 0999 and is followed by a gov.sg SMS. A police call from any other number, or over WhatsApp, isn't the police.
