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CYBERSep 11Anthropic foils AI surveillance targeting dissidents in China, Iran and West AfricaAnthropic said Thursday it had disrupted several state-sponsored surveillance operations using its artificial intelligence models, warning of the growing AI use to target dissidents and minorities. The campaigns, detected between January and July, originated in China, Iran and West Africa and targeted diaspora communities, including Hong Kong pro-democracy activists.France 24 [en]
CYBERSep 11China-Linked UNC3569 Exploited Sogou Input Method Flaw to Deploy GRAYRABBIT BackdoorThe Hacker News
CYBERSep 11China and Iran, among the countries that have used AI for espionage, according to AnthropicClarín
CYBERSep 11Indonesia Hit by Android Banking App-Cloning CampaignThe GoldFactory threat group exploits the Android Work Profile feature to deliver the Gigabud Trojan, while Mantax Otax spreads separately.Dark Reading
CYBERBREAKINGSep 10Bad actors in China and Russia are already weaponizing Anthropic’s AIPolitico Tech
CYBERSep 9DICT , CICC order 24 - hour cyber checks after attacks on govt websitesnewsbytes.ph · Philippines
CYBERSep 9China slams US claims of ‘industrial-scale’ AI theftThe response comes after three US agencies accused Chinese AI companies of exploiting American AI models.Al Jazeera [en]
CYBERSep 9Man in Singapore gets protection order against wife who sent AI obscene imagesA family court has granted a man a personal protection order (PPO) against his wife, who had abused him emotionally or psychologically with text messages about him having sex with his sister. The court found that the sending of fake images and videos of the husband and his sister engaging in sexual acts, generated by artificial intelligence, amounted to family violence. The man had sought the PPO alleging that his wife had inflicted emotional or psychological abuse on him by accusing him of...South China Morning Post
CYBERSep 9US claims Chinese AI firms are carrying out industrial - scale theft of trade secretsbignewsnetwork.com · United States
CYBERSep 9US firm used AI to hijack WeChat account, spurring call for cyber cooperation with ChinaUS cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated how artificial intelligence could help hijack WeChat accounts via unanswered voice calls, intensifying concerns about AI-driven cyber threats and prompting renewed calls for bilateral cooperation between the United States and China. US security firm Calif said on Tuesday that its AI system identified a critical flaw in Tencent Holdings’ widely used messaging and payments app in July. In just a little over a week, researchers developed WeWorm – an...South China Morning Post
CYBERSep 812 South Koreans arrested in Thailand scam centre crackdownThai authorities arrested 12 South Koreans and a Chinese national accused of running a scam call centre from a high-end rented house south of Bangkok, police said on Tuesday. The alleged scammers “entered Thailand from a neighbouring country and were hiding in Samut Prakan province, renting a luxury house”, Thai police said in a statement, without naming the country. Cambodia and Myanmar, which border Thailand, have become hubs for criminal groups operating fake romance, investment and other...South China Morning Post
CYBERSep 7Taiwan sets up US-backed cyber unit to hunt hidden military threatsTaiwan’s military plans to step up its cyber defences against mainland China with a new threat-hunting team and foreign expertise as it deepens cooperation with the US. The Information, Communications and Electronic Force Command has earmarked NT$95.93 million (US$3.03 million) in its proposed 2027 budget to establish the team and bring foreign experts and instructors to Taiwan for advanced training. According to the budget plan, which still needs legislative approval, the programme would focus...South China Morning Post
CYBERSep 5How some grey-market crypto ATMs in Hong Kong can turn users into fraud victimsInside a tiny self-service laundromat in Quarry Bay in the east of Hong Kong Island, next to a wall of washing machines, stands a waist-high cryptocurrency terminal with signs reading “Elon Musk recommends Dogecoin” and “Buy bitcoin in one minute”. In order to obtain Dogecoin through the ATM, customers feed Hong Kong dollar notes into a slot and scan a QR code. The equivalent amount in cryptocurrency is then credited into their digital wallet. Such machines have proliferated across the city in...South China Morning Post
CYBERSep 4New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims' Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web TrafficThe Hacker News
CYBERSep 4Customer service a major ruse as phone scam losses up 56% in first half of yearImpersonating customer service staff is the “most rampant tactic” used by phone scammers, Hong Kong police have said, with the number of such frauds rising 45 per cent year on year in the first half of 2026 to 4,830 cases amid an overall decline in deception crimes. Superintendent Kwok Ching-yee of the commercial crime bureau said police received a total of 20,613 deception cases in the first half of this year, representing a slight drop of 0.7 per cent compared with the same period last...South China Morning Post
CYBERSep 4Osaka High Court invites 6,000 irrelevant lawyers to Teams: 'No leakage'Asahi Shimbun
CYBERSep 3China-Singapore security team claims breakthrough in hacking Starlink terminalsA team of cybersecurity experts has announced they successfully compromised the latest Starlink user terminals, crossing the security boundaries of the world’s largest satellite constellation. In a post on its social media account on Tuesday, Darknavy, an independent cybersecurity research institute headquartered in Singapore and Shanghai, said it had used sophisticated hardware attacks to gain full administrative control over the terminals, allowing it to run any custom code on the...South China Morning Post
CYBERSep 3Anthropic's distillation battle turns to the dark web as China concerns swellForeign adversaries have been illegally accessing American AI systems to train competing technology, and selling copycat versions at a lower price.CNBC
CYBERSep 3‘My nude became a sticker’: Hong Kong women say image abuse thrives despite lawFive years after a nude photo was taken without her consent, a woman opened Instagram to find the image had been turned into a sticker and sent back to her in a chat. Terrified that the sticker could already be circulating widely, the victim reached out to Emilia Wong Yue-kiu, a women’s rights activist and adult content creator who advocates for bodily autonomy. But Wong was pessimistic that reporting the case would help, noting it was just one of countless similar messages for help she had...South China Morning Post
CYBERSep 2Hong Kong watchdog sets integrity standards for government computers to fight misuseHong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has publicly unveiled its standards for the use of government computer systems after uncovering loopholes, including requiring bureaus and departments to self-check their compliance when requesting digital project funds. Danny Woo Ying-ming, commissioner of the ICAC, said on Wednesday that an investigation by his agency had found that some government computer systems had loopholes that raised the risk of corruption. “Once systems are...South China Morning Post
CYBERSep 2Southeast Asia scam gangs regroup after Cambodia purge | South China Morning PostScam gangs in Southeast Asia are regrouping following a purge in Cambodia. This indicates ongoing challenges with organized crime and fraudulent activities in the region.scmp.com · China
CYBERSep 2Southeast Asia’s scam gangs regroup after Cambodia’s purgeCambodia says it has flushed out a scam industry estimated to have stolen tens of billions of US dollars last year alone, but a string of arrests in recent days suggests the gangs behind it may have simply changed address. Scam centres proliferated across Cambodia during the pandemic, when hundreds of thousands of jobless young people were pulled into defunct casino complexes to target victims worldwide with bogus romance, cryptocurrency and investment frauds. Chinese criminal networks found an...South China Morning Post
CYBERSep 2Old, Unpatched Flaws Give Attackers Access to Philippines Nuclear AgencyDark Reading
CYBERSep 1Suspected cyberattack puts data of 33,054 customers using group-buying app at riskThe private data of about 33,000 customers of TVB-owned group-buying platform Neigbuy has been compromised in a suspected cyberattack, with police saying they have received six reports of scammers posing as staff. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data confirmed on Tuesday that it had received a data breach notification from the company on Sunday, and had initiated a formal investigation. The platform, founded in 2018 and majority-owned by free-to-air television broadcaster...South China Morning Post
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