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INTERPOL Warns Phishing, Ransomware, and AI Scams Are Rising Across Asia-Pacific

A new report from INTERPOL has revealed a “dramatic increase” in cybercrime in Asia and the South Pacific, fueled by rapid digitalization, internet penetration, new technologies, organized criminal networks, and a disparity in cybersecurity maturity.

According to INTERPOL’s 2025/2026 Asia and South Pacific Cyberthreat Assessment Report, phishing has emerged as the most widespread and

Texas Parks & Wildlife Data Breach Affects 3 Million Individuals

Hackers stole personal information after breaching the systems of a third-party license vendor serving TPWD.

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AryStinger botnet infected thousands of D-Link routers worldwide

A previously undocumented malware botnet named AryStinger has compromised more than 4,000 outdated routers to turn them into proxies for malicious traffic. […]

New Prinz Eugen ransomware prioritizes recent files for encryption

A new ransomware operation named ‘Prinz Eugen’ prioritizes recently modified files for encryption and leaves no ransom note on the system. […]

Microsoft links Mastra AI supply chain attack to North Korean hackers

Microsoft has attributed a recent Mastra AI supply chain attack that compromised more than 140 npm packages to the North Korean hacking group Sapphire Sleet, also known as BlueNoroff. […]

Hackers Exploit Gravity SMTP WordPress Plugin Bug to Expose API Keys

Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched security flaw impacting Gravity SMTP, a WordPress plugin that’s installed on about 100,000 sites.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-4020 (CVSS score: 5.3), is a medium-severity information disclosure flaw that can allow unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data, such as configuration data, API keys, secrets, and OAuth tokens

French President Urges US to Share Cutting-Edge AI and Democracies to Cooperate on Regulation

French President Emmanuel Macron urged the world’s wealthy democracies to work together on regulating advanced AI systems.

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Klue OAuth breach victim list grows as Icarus hackers claim attack

Market intelligence platform Klue has publicly confirmed a recent security incident that allowed threat actors to steal OAuth tokens used to connect to customers’ Salesforce environments, as the new “Icarus” extortion group publicly claims the attack. […]

Hackers exploit info disclosure bug in Gravity SMTP WordPress plugin

Threat actors are exploiting an unauthenticated information disclosure vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Gravity SMTP, active on 100,000 sites. […]

Unpatchable ‘usbliter8’ Exploit Breaks Apple A12 and A13 SecureROM Boot Chain

Security researchers at Paradigm Shift have published a working exploit, dubbed usbliter8, that achieves arbitrary code execution inside the SecureROM of Apple’s A12 and A13 chips.

That code is burned into the silicon at manufacture. No software update can reach it. Affected devices will carry this flaw for as long as they stay in use.

This is not a remote attack. It requires

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