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

A cyber extortion group claimed on Tuesday (Jun 16) to have stolen more than a terabyte of data from pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk and said it is exploring selling parts of the data after unsuccessfully demanding US$25 million from the company. FulcrumSec, a cyber extortion group that emerged in October 2025, said in a long...Read More

KFUPM scholars are helping shape a safer and smarter digital future Jasmine Bager DHAHRAN: In a quiet corner of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, a group of Ph.D. candidates is working to solve some of the most pressing technological challenges of the modern era. Among them are Asma Yamani and Linah Ali Abuhajar,...Read More

How to Build Resilience and Protect Against Ransomware: 6 Best Practices If you’re looking for effective ways to guard against ransomware, take a cue from the world’s top cloud providers. For example, platforms such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) are built to help resist these threats by combining strong layered security, automation, AI, resilience techniques,...Read More

Overview of the meeting between ASEAN member states and UNODC in Vienna (Photo: VNA) The remarks were made at a meeting on June 19 in Vienna, Austria, between the ASEAN Committee in Vienna (ACV) and Juma, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The ACV comprises ambassadors and chargés d’affaires...Read More

The cyber-extortion group FulcrumSec claims to have stolen over one terabyte of data from Novo Nordisk after spending more than two months inside the company’s network, Reuters reports. According to the group, the compromised material includes source code, information on both launched and unreleased drugs, clinical trial data, and personal details regarding employees, physicians, and...Read More

New CISO appointments in March 2026 Kathy Wang joints micro1 as CISO Frontier AI model training company micro1 has hired Kathy Wang as CISO. She was most recently CISO at hospitality software developer Otelier, and has previously held top cybersecurity roles at Discord and GitLab. Green Impact Exchange names John Visneski CISO John Visneski has...Read More