KUALA LUMPUR: Steps to keep students safe in schools are not enough yet, says Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, days after a Form Four student was found dead at her school in Johor. The Prime Minister said 5,681 bullying cases were reported in schools from January to August this year, and the real figure was certainly...Read More
A view of Seoul’s Yeouido financial district. Yonhap News Cybersecurity exchange-traded funds are rallying after artificial intelligence-driven hacking struck South Korea’s financial sector. The TIGER Global AI Cybersecurity ETF returned 15.04% over the past month, from Sept. 7 to Oct. 6, according to Koscom’s ETF CHECK data released on the 6th. The fund tracks the...Read More
▲ OpenAI (File photo) Amid a surge in hacking and data theft crimes exploiting artificial intelligence (AI), Japanese companies and government offices are also reeling from cyberattacks. According to Kyodo News, cybersecurity firm Trend Micro announced on October 6 that the number of unauthorized access incidents made public by Japanese companies and local governments totaled...Read More
A 67-year-old senior citizen in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, allegedly lost ₹13 lakh after cyber criminals posing as police officials kept her under “digital arrest” for about a week. The fraudsters allegedly threatened her with arrest, claiming that her bank account was linked to an account suspected of being involved in terrorism. Fearing legal action, the...Read More
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police have arrested eight Indian nationals for allegedly operating an illegal online gambling racket from a residence in Thalawathugoda, a suburb of Colombo. The arrests followed a targeted raid conducted by officers from the Thalangama Police, with assistance from the Cyber Crimes Investigation Unit and other specialized divisions. Acting on a tip-off,...Read More
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) today announced plans to fund not-for-profit organizations that aim to strengthen the cybersecurity posture of electric cooperative, municipal, and small investor-owned utilities across the U.S. This $100 million funding opportunity is available through CESER’s Rural and Municipal Utility Cybersecurity (RMUC)...Read More
By Júlia Tar ( October 6, 2026, 08:01 GMT | Comment) — Restrictions on participation in cybersecurity standards work should be targeted and assessed case-by-case, ETSI Director-General Jan Ellsberger told MLex, warning that broad limits could remove useful expertise. He also mentioned challenging timelines for Cyber Resilience Act standards and called for close cooperation during...Read More
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Huo Xing Cai Jing reports that a 28-year-old Russian core member of the globally renowned ransomware group Qilin has been arrested in Japan and was legally extradited to Germany on October 2. According to the report, the man is suspected of illegally infiltrating the system of a German logistics company in September 2024, encrypting data,...Read More
A new hacking group claims to have stolen data on over 3,000 Trump Mobile customers by infecting an employee at a related company with malware. Straight Arrow News first reported on the alleged hack, for which a group called BYOD has claimed responsibility. Last week, the gang’s site on the dark web published a file...Read More
