SINGAPORE – INTERPOL’s 2025/2026 Asia and South Pacific Cyberthreat Assessment Report has revealed a dramatic increase in cybercrime across the region driven by rapid digitalization, new technologies and increasingly organized criminal networks. The report, covering the period from January 2024 to March 2025, found that more than half of the countries surveyed reported cybercrime now...Read More
Brazil’s government suspects a hacking attack triggered an unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across parts of the country early on Saturday. In a statement, the National Protection and Civil Defense Secretariat said the country’s citizens’ notification system was taken offline at around 1:30 a.m. local time (0430 GMT) after a message containing the word...Read More
Researchers in the Center for Sustainable Electrical Energy Systems at UWM, run by Professor Robert Cuzner (right), include: Young Soo Kim (from left), Hassan Abdallah, James (Tianchen) Li, Boris (Chei Wei) Hsu, Kevin Monahan, Lucy Benavides, Eric Schmitt, Kayla Knudtson and Joe Lentz. The lab’s work includes applied research in power and electricity, including partnerships...Read More
According to a UNODC study on organized crime dynamics in Ukraine released in 2025, fraud cases have increased drastically, with illegal revenues estimated in the billions of US dollars, driven in part by an estimated 1,500 criminal call centres operating across the country. The victims are predominantly Ukrainians, including those forcibly displaced by the war,...Read More
Ravie LakshmananJun 20, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched security flaw impacting Gravity SMTP, a WordPress plugin that’s installed on about 100,000 sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-4020 (CVSS score: 5.3), is a medium-severity information disclosure flaw that can allow unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data, such as configuration data,...Read More
Wrapping up Q1 earnings, we look at the numbers and key takeaways for the cybersecurity stocks, including SentinelOne (NYSE:S) and its peers. Cybersecurity continues to be one of the fastest-growing segments within software for good reason. Almost every company is slowly finding itself becoming a technology company and facing rising cybersecurity risks. Businesses are accelerating...Read More
Chinese police have cracked a series of cybercrime cases involving a new variant of the Silver Fox Trojan virus, which has recently emerged in cyberspace, the Ministry of Public Security’s cybersecurity bureau said on Tuesday. The Trojan is highly deceptive and mainly targets employees of enterprises and public institutions, particularly financial personnel, the bureau said....Read More
FortiBleed Exposes Global Credential-Spraying Operation Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2026 FortiBleed exposed a massive campaign that made billions of login attempts against Fortinet VPNs, compromising organizations worldwide. FortiBleed wasn’t a targeted hack. It was a factory. A multi-operator crew ran an industrial-scale attack against Fortinet FortiGate SSL VPN devices worldwide, and security researcher Volodymyr “Bob”...Read More
IBM tests Nighthawk processor on physics and cybersecurity. Researchers tested IBM’s Nighthawk quantum processor with two applied tasks: a simplified particle physics model and filtering malicious traffic. The experiments were highlighted in the Quantum Computing Report. In the first task, the team aimed to calculate a physical problem on the hardware, specifically the interaction between...Read More
Parliament will reconvene on Monday with several key reform and regulatory bills set to take centre stage, alongside debates on energy security and economic challenges facing Malaysia. The 16-day Dewan Rakyat sitting, which runs until July 16, will see the re-tabling of the Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2026 to limit the Prime Minister’s tenure to 10...Read More
