Iran's MuddyWater Used Microsoft Teams to Run a Fake Ransomware Attack — While Quietly Stealing Your Data
Iran-linked MuddyWater used unsolicited Microsoft Teams chats, screen-sharing, and credential-harvesting to conduct sust...
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AI-Assisted Attacks Are the New Normal: Mandiant M-Trends 2026 Shows Exploit Windows Have Inverted
Mandiant's M-Trends 2026 report confirms 28.3% of CVEs are now exploited within 24 hours of disclosure — and documents t...
ASEAN Is Short 3.5 Million Cybersecurity Professionals — And the Gap Is Widening
ASEAN Is Short 3.5 Million Cybersecurity Professionals — And the Gap Is Widening. Technical analysis, regional impact, a...
Ransomware Groups Are Now Using AI to Negotiate Higher Ransom Payments
ASEAN perspective on Ransomware Groups Are Now Using AI to Negotiate Higher Ransom Payments. Technical analysis, regiona...
ASEAN Cybersecurity Spending Hit 8 Billion in 2025 — Is It Going to the Right Places?
ASEAN perspective on ASEAN Cybersecurity Spending Hit 8 Billion in 2025 — Is It Going to the Right Pl. Technical analysi...
Zero-Click Exploits Are Now Targeting ASEAN Mobile Banking Users — No Tap Required
ASEAN perspective on Zero-Click Exploits Are Now Targeting ASEAN Mobile Banking Users — No Tap Required. Technical analy...
AI Has Made Cyber Exploits Faster Than Patches — 28% of CVEs Now Exploited Within 24 Hours
Mandiant's M-Trends 2026 report reveals that time-to-exploit has gone negative: exploits now routinely arrive before pat...
AI Coding Tools Are Creating Security Debt Faster Than Developers Can Fix It — Singapore Study Finds
Cybersecurity experts in Singapore warn that AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code are generating insecure...
Ransomware Attacks on ASEAN Healthcare Hit Record High in Q1 2026
Ransomware attacks on ASEAN healthcare organisations hit a record high in Q1 2026. Here is what hospital IT teams and he...
Supply Chain Attacks Hit Record 454,600 Malicious Packages in 2025 — And AI Is to Blame
Malicious packages in public software repositories hit 454,600 in 2025, up from 55,000 in 2022. AI-assisted creation is...
Deepfake Fraud Surges 300% in ASEAN Banking — Singapore Banks Respond With Biometric Mandates
Deepfake fraud targeting ASEAN banks surged 300% in 2025-2026. Singapore banks are mandating biometric verification. Her...
Anthropic's Project Glasswing Found a 27-Year-Old Bug in OpenBSD — Before Hackers Could
Anthropic's Project Glasswing used an unreleased frontier model to find thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities — includin...
Qilin Ransomware Hit Kuala Lumpur International Airport — Malaysia Said No to $10 Million
Qilin ransomware hit Kuala Lumpur International Airport in March 2025, demanding $10 million. PM Anwar Ibrahim refused t...
Prasarana Malaysia Breached: RansomHub Stole 316GB From the Company Running KL's Buses and Trains
RansomHub ransomware group stole 316GB from Prasarana Malaysia, the company running Kuala Lumpur's buses, LRT and MRT. H...
Zero-Trust Architecture Is No Longer Optional for ASEAN Financial Institutions
Zero-trust network architecture has moved from best practice to regulatory expectation for ASEAN financial institutions....
Vietnam Hospital Breach: 112,000 Patient Records Advertised on Dark Web for Sale
In June 2024, hackers put 112,000 patient and staff records from Hanoi's Hong Ngoc General Hospital on sale on the dark...
Malaysia Topped Southeast Asia for Web Attacks in 2024 — 19.62 Million Hits in Six Months
Malaysia recorded 19.62 million web-based cyberattacks in H1 2024 — topping all of Southeast Asia. Here is what the data...
Indonesia Is Hit by 3,300 Cyberattacks Every Week — And Most Go Undetected for Months
Between February and August 2024, Indonesia averaged 3,300 cyberattacks per week. Most organisations don't detect breach...
Nation-State Hackers Are Now Using AI — And ASEAN Is a Priority Target
Nation-state hackers are deploying AI in cyberattacks, with ASEAN critical infrastructure as a priority target. Here is...
Big Pharmacy Malaysia Data Breach: 50GB Exposed in a Sector That Stores Your Prescription History
Big Pharmacy Malaysia suffered a 50GB data breach in 2024 exposing prescription data, customer records and employee info...
Phishing Attacks Powered by AI Are Now Indistinguishable From Legitimate Emails
AI-generated phishing emails are now indistinguishable from legitimate business emails in red team testing. Here is what...
Singapore Lost S$1.1 Billion to Scams in 2024 — AI Voice Cloning Is Making It Worse
Singapore lost S$1.1 billion to scams in 2024. AI voice cloning and deepfakes are making traditional awareness-based def...
Thailand's Government Ministry Hit by Tengu Ransomware — Hackers Demanded $300K
Tengu ransomware hit a Thai government ministry in 2024, demanding $300,000. Here is the attack breakdown and what it me...
South Korean Coupang Breach Hit 33.7 Million Users — What It Means for ASEAN E-Commerce
South Korean e-commerce platform Coupang suffered a data breach affecting 33.7 million customers in December 2025. Here...
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