Japan Takaichi Orders Cybersecurity Measures as Attacks Grow October 26, 2026 By Sakura Murakami Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ordered her cabinet to compile emergency measures by the end of next week to counter a...
South Korea, Japan Buffeted By Hacks As AI Lowers Bar For Cybercriminals October 13, 2026 By Kyu-seok Shim, Brenda Goh and Kentaro Okasaka South Korean and Japanese companies are racing to strengthen cyber defenses after a wave of attacks that cybersecurity experts say...
South Korean Banks Likely Hacked By China-Based Actor With AI Agent, CrowdStrike Says October 9, 2026 By Kyu-seok Shim and Brenda Goh The suspect behind recent cyberattacks at South Korean banks was likely a China-based 26-year-old who used a Chinese-developed AI agent...
Hackers Tricked Asos Employee to Steal Work Account Login October 9, 2026 By Deirdre Hipwell and Ryan Gallagher Asos Plc said a recent data breach occurred when an “unauthorized party” impersonated a trusted contact to dupe an employee...
Korea Orders Security Checks After Finance-Sector Data Leaks October 6, 2026 By Jaehyun Eom South Korean regulators urged financial institutions to promptly complete internal security inspections and report the results to authorities after a...
Hackers Breached Propulsion System of US-Bound Oil Tanker October 5, 2026 By Jake Bleiberg and Ruth Liao FBI and U.S. Coast Guard investigators have found evidence that hackers accessed the propulsion system of an oil supertanker as...
AI Tools Suspected in Korea’s Shinhan Bank Hack, Yonhap Says October 2, 2026 By Soobin Kim Advanced artificial intelligence tools may have been used in a cyberattack on South Korea’s Shinhan Bank Co. that exposed information...
FBI Investigating Possible Exposure of Millions of American IDs September 4, 2026 By Patrick Howell O'Neill The FBI is investigating a potential breach of an ID verification company that may have exposed scans of millions of...
Russian-Speaking Cybercriminals Used SpaceX’s AI Tool to Hack Seven Companies August 28, 2026 By Raphael Satter Russian-speaking hackers used SpaceX’s AI coding assistant, Cursor, to help break in to a Belgian chemical company and at least...
AI Firms Debate Putting Cyber Tests Online After Model Hacks August 26, 2026 By Jordan Robertson and Rachel Metz Artificial intelligence labs and cybersecurity firms are reconsidering the way they test advanced AI models after models from at least...