Philippines, US sign military intelligence-sharing deal to counter China

The Philippines and the United States have signed a military intelligence-sharing deal, in a further deepening of security ties between the two defence treaty allies as they seek to counter a resurgent China. Secretary of Defense Gilberto Teodoro and his Read More …

Singapore cyber defenders fight simulated attacks on AI-enabled systems in 4-day exercise

More technology is moving onto the cloud – meaning its data is hosted on remote servers rather than on personal devices – and integrating artificial intelligence (AI), which opens it up to new kinds of malicious attacks. To improve Singapore’s Read More …

Tracking the recent activities of the APT-Q-27

Overview In May 2022, Qi’anxin Threat Intelligence Center published an article titled “Operation Dragon Breath (APT-Q-27): A Dimensionality Reduction Attack on the Gambling Industry”, disclosing the attack activities of GoldenEyeDog (Qi’anxin internal tracking number APT-Q-27) against the gambling industry, and Read More …

QSC: A multi-plugin framework used by CloudComputating group in cyberespionage campaigns

In 2021, Kaspersky researchers began to investigate an attack on the telecom industry in South Asia. During the investigation, they discovered QSC: a multi-plugin malware framework that loads and runs plugins (modules) in memory. The framework includes a Loader, a Read More …

Fake X accounts promote COP hosts UAE, Azerbaijan

The social media platform X has for months been aflush with praise for United Arab Emirates and Azerbaijan in posts shared by hundreds of profiles — and all found to be fake. Analysed by AFP over several days, the large-scale Read More …

New Trend in MSI File Abuse: New OceanLotus Group First to Use MST Files to Deliver Tromas

During recent daily operations, the QiAnXin Threat Intelligence Center discovered that the new OceanLotus group, which we have been continuously tracking since mid-2022, has begun to re-activate and is using a new tactic of MSI file misuse. Even though the Read More …

China drafts ‘quantum-proof’ protocol to defend against advanced cyber attacks

Scientists from China are aiming to create a communication protocol which can help protect traditional encryption methods from quantum computer attacks. Chinese scientists recently presented a draft document at an internal event held in Sweden which showed their attempts at Read More …

Hong Kong: ‘Lack of care led to sports association data breach’

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) on Tuesday accused the South China Athletic Association (SCAA) of having inadequate policies and a lack of care, after a data breach affecting more than 72,300 members. An attack by Read More …

Taiwan: Defense ministry confirms basic data leak

The Ministry of National Defense today confirmed a data leak of basic personal information about certain high-ranking officials in response to a report from Chinese-language media, but said it did not include any information about personal asset holdings. The China Read More …

Cyber Security Association of China calls for cybersecurity review of Intel products sold in China

The Cyber Security Association of China on Wednesday called for the launch of a systematic review of potential cybersecurity risks in Intel products due to frequent vulnerabilities and high failure rates, in order to effectively safeguard China’s national security and Read More …