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Privacy International calls for transparency from global oversight bodies on intelligence sharing to protect citizens' privacy.

North Korean state-sponsored actors may be behind campaigns to steal virtual currencies in order to fund the state's activities.

ICS attacks could shut down critical operational systems, damage or destroy physical equipment and threaten human safety.

More than a quarter of all business email compromise (BEC) scams around the world target Australia, new research says.

Trusted Metrics and Onesecure Asia are partnering up to deliver US-developed Security Operations Center (SOC) technology to Singapore and ASEAN.

78% of respondents said they would deem an act as cyber war if a nation-state was behind a successful or attempted hack of another country's election.

The dialogue included cyber threats, mitigation, the cyber policy landscape and future possible bilateral cooperation areas.

A pervasive auto-clicking adware by the name of GhostClicker has infected as many as 340 apps from Google Play.

NTT Security has shuffled its senior management team for EMEA as it refreshes its approach to managed security services in South Africa and Europe.

Known as CopyKittens, the group is politically-motivated and has increasingly been active in pursuing foreign espionage on strategic targets.

Cyberbit CEO Adi Dar says Singapore is a technology-driven nation that is on the forefront of products and technologies.

A recently released report from Lloyd's of London has revealed just how powerful and incredibly destructive a global cyber attack could be.

Budding defence-tech startups from around ANZ, India and the US are part of the very first Techstars Adelaide accelerator.

Metadata – the data that describes other data – is a security threat that goes underreported but is also a powerful threat to national security.

The upcoming GDPR will have a significant impact on data protection in Europe and beyond, according to Symantec's Brian Fletcher.

New Zealand-based cybersecurity firm SafeStack has signed up major talent to its advisory board to help the company achieve further growth.

Singapore now has Germany on board as the latest partner to sign a joint declaration pledging stronger cybersecurity.

Hard-coding and embedding credentials in the code or a script can initially make them easy to use – but this represents a significant vulnerability.

The Petya ransomware uses the EternalBlue exploit to not only infect files, but an entire system's drive. We get the latest from the experts.

It is not clear whether the IPs listed in the report were part of a command and control infrastructure or simply bots - or both.