Scammers turn to ‘ghost-tapping’ retail fraud to launder funds Summary Chinese organised criminal groups in Southeast Asia are increasingly using a tactic called “ghost-tapping” to launder proceeds from large-scale scamming…
UK telecom provider Colt says outages were due to cyber incident Summary London-based Colt Technology Services said it is still recovering from a cyber incident that disrupted services earlier in…
LLM chatbots trivial to weaponize for data theft, say boffins Content summary A team from King’s College London presented research at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium showing that conversational AI…
Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline Summary London-headquartered Colt Technology Services reported a “cyber incident” that began on 12 August 2025 and led it to take several internal…
Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline Summary The Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands (Openbaar Ministerie) remains impacted by a cyberattack first observed on 17 July…
Cisco’s Secure Firewall Management Center now not-so secure, springs a CVSS 10 RCE hole Summary Cisco has issued a patch for a maximum-severity remote command‑injection flaw (CVE-2025-20265) in its Secure…
Typhoon-adjacent Chinese crew broke into Taiwanese web host Summary Cisco Talos reports that a Chinese‑speaking advanced persistent threat tracked as UAT-7237 breached an unnamed Taiwanese web hosting provider to steal…
AI Is Reshaping Hacking. No One Agrees How Fast Summary Several cybersecurity companies showcased AI agents at Black Hat, signalling that defenders could soon have stronger automation to detect and…
AI Is Reshaping Hacking. No One Agrees How Fast Summary Recent reporting (via Axios) from Black Hat highlights rapid development of AI tools for both cyber defence and offence. Vendors…
Seagate ‘Spins Up’ a Raid on a Counterfeit Hard Drive Workshop Summary Security teams from Seagate’s Singapore and Malaysian offices, together with Malaysian authorities, raided a warehouse outside Kuala Lumpur…
