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Under Singapore’s Cybersecurity Act, critical infrastructure operators are held to higher cyber security standards and obligations, such as reporting any cyber security outages and attacks on their systems or supply chains, as long as these incidents affect their services.

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The Singapore Government will begin sharing its classified threat intelligence with critical sectors including energy, telecom and finance to strengthen national security.

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The new unit will focus CSIT’s deep expertise in various technical areas like cyber threat research, malware analysis and red-teaming into better capabilities for public agencies to defend, investigate and respond against high-impact cyber threats.

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Singapore has launched the Digital Defence Hub under Mindef to counter advanced persistent threats targeting government and critical infrastructure.

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Vietnam Airlines said it was alerted after hackers uploaded 23 million customer records belonging to several companies on data-trading forums.

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Vietnam Airlines has confirmed that some customer information was exposed in a recent data breach linked to its customer service platform provider.

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The Singtel programme comes after the number of systems here infected by malware leapt to 117,300 in 2024 from about 70,200 in 2023, according to the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA).

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Starting in November, nearly 50,000 SMEs will receive one year of free cybersecurity services from Singtel, as part of a national digitalisation drive.

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Globally, the number of ransomware attacks in 2024 surged to record levels. 5,414 published ransomware attacks on organisations worldwide were recorded, representing an 11 per cent increase from 2023, according to a report by Cyberint, a Check Point Company.

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Google has rolled out a new security feature that stops files from syncing to the cloud when ransomware is detected on a computer, allowing users to recover from the attack without losing access to their data.

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"The system failure is limited to our operations within Japan." "We are actively investigating the cause and working to restore operations; however there is currently no estimated timeline for recovery", Asahi said.

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Japanese brewing giant Asahi was hit by a cyberattack, leading to a “systems failure” that disrupted its shipping and customer service operations.

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Optus said the outage on Sunday impacted thousands of people in New South Wales and lasted more than nine hours.

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Australian telecom giant Optus suffered another major outage that prevented calls to emergency services. This comes just over a week after a similar disruption that was linked to four deaths.

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The company, which operates nearly 400 outlets across the city, said that a network problem had affected its e-payment, email and loyalty programme systems.

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Circle K convenience stores in Hong Kong have suspended electronic payments after a suspected cyberattack.

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Cyberattacks against Korean companies have surged in recent months. Despite that, experts argue that Korea still lacks a government-level cybersecurity control tower to lead a coordinated national response.

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Calls are growing for the government to set up a cybersecurity control tower after a series of major cyberattacks and breaches on Korea’s mobile carriers and financial firms.

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Investigations found that lax cybersecurity management worsened the breach. Attackers first scanned the payments server for vulnerabilities on Aug. 12, installed malicious code the next day and exfiltrated 1.7 gigabytes of data on Aug. 14 and 15.

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Lotte Card said a cyberattack exposed the personal data of 2.97 million users. About 280,000 customers face direct risks of unauthorized card use.

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