Japanese electricity giant apologises after physical drive with data of 10.9 million clients goes missing

A Japanese energy giant has apologised after losing a physical storage drive containing the data on millions of its clients. Workers for Kyushu Electric Power Co. apparently mislaid the drive, which had been left in an unlocked cabinet, the company Read More …

A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see

A hotel check-in system left more than 1 million customer passports, driver’s licenses, and selfie verification photos to the open web after a security lapse. The data is now offline after TechCrunch alerted the company responsible. The hotel check-in system, called Read More …

Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads

Vietnam has decided to develop its own cloud platform, so its government agencies can stop using foreign-owned services. Prime Minister Le Minh Hung last week announced the plan in Decision 808/QD-TTg, which lists 20 strategic technologies Vietnam wants to develop to Read More …

Silver Fox uses new ABCDoor backdoor to target organisations in Russia and India

In December 2025, Kaspersky researchers detected a wave of malicious emails designed to look like official correspondence from the Indian tax service. A few weeks later, in January 2026, a similar campaign began targeting Russian organizations. Kaspersky have attributed this Read More …

Inside Shadow-Earth-053: A China-Aligned Cyberespionage Campaign Against Government and Defense Sectors in Asia

Through ongoing analysis of ShadowPad implants targeting South and Southeast Asia, TrendAI Research has uncovered a series of new related campaigns that are tracked under a temporary intrusion set (a provisional cluster of related activity pending formal attribution) designated SHADOW-EARTH-053, Read More …

North Korean hackers blamed for $290M crypto theft

Over the weekend, hackers stole more than $290 million in cryptocurrency from Kelp DAO, a protocol that allows users to earn yields on idle crypto investments. By Monday, LayerZero, one of the projects affected by the hack, accused North Korea Read More …

Sophisticated supply chain attack exploited TrueConf update process

Southeast Asian governments were recently targeted by a highly sophisticated supply chain attack as part of a wider cyber-espionage campaign, which experts believe is the work of the Chinese government. Security researchers Check Point detailed their findings on Operation TrueChaos, Read More …

Cambodia: 9 foreigners nabbed in Phnom Penh cyber-scam raid

Eight Chinese nationals and one Malaysian were detained during a raid on a gated community in the capital on Wednesday. A joint force from the Phnom Penh Administrative Unified Command raided a property in the Borey Peng Huot development, located Read More …

Taiwan Indicts 62 Over Laundering $339M From Crypto Scam Compounds in Cambodia

Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted 62 people over their alleged links to Prince Group, a network designated as a transnational criminal organization by the U.S. Department of Justice. According to a report by Reuters, those indicted include the group’s chairman and Read More …

CIMB refutes claims of data breach involving 1.2 million records

CIMB Group Holdings Bhd has given assurance that claims circulating online about a data breach involving its customers are false and that customer data continues to be protected. The financial services provider said on social media platform X that its Read More …