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CYBER5d agoMan arrested after 23,000 bogus customer service scam calls in over a weekHong Kong police have arrested a 24-year-old man over an alleged scam operation that made more than 23,000 fraudulent calls in over a week by impersonating e-commerce customer service representatives, with one victim losing more than HK$100,000 (US$12,741). The force said on Sunday that the man was suspected of operating a call centre for a syndicate that posed as online shopping platform staff and tricked victims into transferring money for a variety of reasons. Senior Inspector of the...South China Morning Post
CYBEROct 9TP-Link Sued by Four More U.S. States Over Router Security and China TiesFour more U.S. states sued router maker TP-Link Systems on October 6, bringing the total to five, with Texas filing a suit in February. Florida, Iowa, Montana and Nebraska allege the California company misled buyers about how secure its routers are and how separate it is from China. TP-Link denies the claims and says it will fight them in court. TP-Link Systems is based inThe Hacker News
CYBEROct 9BIR warns taxpayers against fake ORUS websiteThe BIR warned taxpayers against orus.ph, a suspicious website imitating its online registration system, and urged users to access ORUS only through its official portal.tribune · philippines
CYBEROct 9Philippines thought Pogos were gone. Corruption and AI still power themTwo years after the Philippines banned its notorious offshore gaming hubs, or Pogos, a recent crackdown on hundreds of foreigners has highlighted a worrying trend of embedded corruption that still enables the sector to thrive. In September, the National Bureau of Investigation raided a call centre-style facility in Makati City, arresting more than 120 Chinese nationals linked to an alleged illegal trading and a “lust scam” that tricked local and foreign victims into sharing explicit videos,...South China Morning Post
CYBEROct 9South Korea struggles to curb sexual exploitation sites 10 years after Soranet scandalA decade after the shutdown of Soranet – a sprawling online hub for secretly filmed and non-consensual sexual videos that became a symbol of South Korea’s digital sex-crime crisis – the country is still struggling to stamp out similar networks and copycat sites that have emerged in its wake. Their prevalence reflects the difficulties of deterring such illegal activities, policing the online space and changing societal attitudes towards women. Last month, a man was detained over an alleged...South China Morning Post
CYBEROct 8FBI Says China-Linked Hackers Ran Portal Giving Third Parties Access to Stolen EmailsThe Hacker News
CYBEROct 8Japan Sees Sharp Rise in Web Data Leaks Amid Mobile API Abuse and Metabase AttacksAttackers behind a string of personal data leaks at Japanese organizations have abused APIs for mobile apps and targeted known software flaws, the JPCERT Coordination Center (JPCERT/CC) said. The Tokyo-based center, which takes incident reports, based its October 8, 2026 alert on those reports and other information. The alert names no attacker and no affected organization. JPCERT/The Hacker News
CYBEROct 8ARTEX AI Pentesting Tool Used in Data Theft Attacks on South Korean Financial FirmsThe Hacker News
CYBEROct 8Former head of German intelligence may have passed information to ChinaNOS Buitenland
CYBEROct 8South Korea warns of AI-aided hacking after bank data breachesDW News [en]
CYBEROct 8S. Korea warns of AI-aided hacking after bank data breachesDW News [en]
CYBEROct 8Hong Kong students arrested as alleged core members of HK$2.16m fraud syndicateHong Kong police have arrested two students suspected of being key members of a fraud and money-laundering syndicate behind fake job advertisements, dating scams and bogus concert ticket sales. The force said on Thursday that officers had arrested 10 people in an earlier operation targeting the syndicate, which had allegedly swindled victims out of more than HK$2.1 million (US$267,578). The suspects, five men and five women aged between 13 and 68, were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to...South China Morning Post
CYBEROct 8Hacker Used Chinese-Developed A.I. Tool to Target South Korean Banks, CrowdStrike SaysThe cybersecurity firm said the attacker was likely a Chinese speaker and financially motivated, but did not attribute the attacks to a named individual or group.NYT World
CYBEROct 8CrowdStrike links South Korean bank hacks to China-based attacker using AICrowdStrike has attributed hacks against South Korean banks to a China-based attacker. The attacker reportedly utilized artificial intelligence in their operations.Seeking Alpha Tech
CYBEROct 7‘China already has spies’ at US AI labs, claims ex-Anthropic researcherFormer Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon said he was 90 per cent certain that China already had spies inside both US artificial intelligence (AI) companies, without providing evidence. Coxon made the allegation in an interview with entrepreneur Patrick Bet-David on the PBD Podcast, arguing that China could steal advances from leading US AI labs and quickly close any technological gap. “Right now, if we just stopped, they would try and catch up. But I think one really important thing...South China Morning Post
CYBEROct 7Iowa AG sues video surveillance company for making Iowans’ private data available to Chinacbnc · india
CYBEROct 7Recent Taiwan simulation highlights US cyberdefense gaps against China, experts warnDefense One
CYBEROct 7Trading platform Webull's China ties create national security risk, congressional panel findsA congressional committee says trading platform Webull is not the ordinary U.S. company it claims, but exposes customer data to Chinese surveillance risk.CNBC
CYBEROct 7Ransomware attack on 'IDCF Cloud' suspected, system outage occursAsahi Shimbun
CYBEROct 6President of South Korea believes AI models were used in bank hacksThe Hill
CYBEROct 6Linux Backdoors Impersonate Email Security Tools to Evade Detection in Korea and TaiwanThe Hacker News
CYBEROct 6South Korea Warns Of Possible AI Use In Banking HacksMore than seven financial institutions, including some of South Korea's biggest banks, have reported customer data breaches in the past week. The post South Korea Warns Of Possible AI Use In Banking Hacks appeared first on Channels Television.Channels TV
CYBEROct 6Southeast Asia urged to step up war against AI-powered scams through data sharingGovernments and financial institutions in Southeast Asia urgently need to find a way to safely and quickly share data if they hope to contain a surge in scams, cybersecurity experts warn, as artificial intelligence enables criminal operations in the region to expand their reach rapidly. Criminal enterprises stole as much as US$114 billion from victims across the Asia-Pacific in 2025, according to a United Nations report released in July, more than triple the amount from two years earlier, aided...South China Morning Post
CYBEROct 6GMO internet service unit, retailer Mr Max both report massive customer data leaksMore Japanese companies, including the maker of Citizen watches, reported Tuesday unauthorized access to servers and possible leaks of personal information, with the Japanese government describing the situation…Japan Today
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