South Korea to mandate facial recognition for opening new mobile numbers

Korea will make it mandatory for people to undergo facial recognition when opening a new mobile phone number, as part of efforts to root out illegally registered handsets used for scams, the science ministry said Friday. Under the plan, Korea Read More …

Cloud Atlas activity in the first half of 2025: what changed

Known since 2014, the Cloud Atlas group targets countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Infections occur via phishing emails containing a malicious document that exploits an old vulnerability in the Microsoft Office Equation Editor process (CVE-2018-0802) to download and Read More …

ENBANTEC Cyber Security Conference and Exhibition will be held on 12 May 2026 in Istanbul, Turkey

ENBANTEC is a global conference which is one of the most important and prestigious conferences in EMEA region with its focus on Cyber Security, IT Security, Network Security, Data Security, Cloud Security, Mobile Security, Endpoint Security and Identity and Access Read More …

Surveillance tech provider Protei was hacked, its data stolen, and its website defaced

A Russian telecom company that develops technology to allow phone and internet companies to conduct web surveillance and censorship was hacked, had its website defaced, and had data stolen from its servers, TechCrunch has learned. Founded in Russia, Protei makes Read More …

Operation South Star: 0-day Espionage Campaign Targeting Domestic Mobile Phones

In recent years, during high-intensity confrontations with Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups from the Northeast Asia region, the RedDrip team at QiAnXin Threat Intelligence Center has discovered nearly 20 0day vulnerabilities involving domestic software. Some details have been disclosed in Read More …

Phone location data of top EU officials available for sale

Journalists in Europe found it was “easy” to spy on top European Union officials using commercially obtained location histories sold by data brokers, despite the continent having some of the strongest data protection laws in the world. EU officials said Read More …

Government hackers breached telecom giant Ribbon for months before getting caught

U.S. telecommunications giant Ribbon has confirmed that government-backed hackers had access to its network for almost a year before getting caught, according to a public filing. The telco giant said in a 10-Q disclosure last week with the U.S. Securities Read More …

China accuses US of cyber breaches at national time centre

China has accused the U.S. of stealing secrets and infiltrating the country’s national time centre, warning that serious breaches could have disrupted communication networks, financial systems, the power supply and the international standard time. The U.S. National Security Agency has Read More …

Europol: 7 arrested in Cybercrime-as-a-Service takedown

An action day performed in Latvia on 10 October 2025 led to the arrest of five cybercriminals of Latvian nationality and the seizure of infrastructure used to enable crimes against thousands of victims across Europe. During the operation codenamed ‘SIMCARTEL’, Read More …