Asia In Brief ByteDance, the Chinese developer of TikTok, “can no longer be accurately described as a private enterprise” and is instead intertwined with China’s

The BianLian gang is ditching the encrypting-files-and-demanding-ransom route and instead is going for full-on extortion. Cybersecurity firm Avast’s release in January of a free decryptor

A Florida healthcare group has settled a class-action lawsuit after thieves stole more than 447,000 patients’ names, Social Security numbers, and sensitive medical information, from

Google security analysts have warned Android device users that several zero-day vulnerabilities in some Samsung chipsets could allow an attacker to completely hijack and remote-control

A lawsuit filed against eufy security cam maker Anker Tech claims the biz assigns “unique identifiers” to the faces of any person who walks in

Meet the newest member of the crypto rogues’ gallery: Ho Wan Kwok, aka Guo Wengui, aka Miles Guo, whom the US Department of Justice on

Suspected Chinese spies have exploited a critical Fortinet bug, and used custom networking malware to steal credentials and maintain network access, according to Mandiant security

In fresh filings in the FTX bankruptcy case, the cryptocurrency-exchange-slash-hedge-fund’s liquidators say they’ve uncovered $3.2 billion (£2.6b) in payments and loans made to disgraced FTX founder

Good news for ransomware victims: Kaspersky security researchers say they’ve cracked the Conti ransomware code and released a decryptor tool after uncovering leaked data belonging

The United Kingdom government has banned use of Chinese social media platform TikTok among ministers and officials on their work devices as a “precautionary” measure

Artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way from high-tech labs and Hollywood plots into the hands of the general population. ChatGPT, the text generation tool,

Multiple criminals, including at least one nation-state group, broke into a US federal government agency’s Microsoft Internet Information Services web server by exploiting a critical

A cancer patient whose nude medical photos and records were posted online after they were stolen by a ransomware gang, has sued her healthcare provider

A cancer patient whose nude treatment photos and medical records were posted online after they were stolen in a ransomware attack, has sued the healthcare

Patch Tuesday Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday includes new fixes for 74 bugs, two of which are already being actively exploited, and nine that are rated

A 19-year-old suspected of belonging to the “ViLE” crime group told a man authorities think is in the same gang that he “jacked into a

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) late last week sent tremors through the global financial system, creating opportunities for short-sellers – and numerous species

The outgoing president of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), David Panuelo, penned a lengthy letter last week accusing Beijing of rampant bribery, spying and