Track East Asia cyber, AI, cloud, and infrastructure risk before it becomes an incident.
Japan is implementing a new Supply Chain Cybersecurity (SCS) Evaluation System that prioritizes continuous operational maintenance over one-time audits, requiring organizations to integrate annual inspections and specialized personnel frameworks into their core business processes. Read more
Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has revealed that state-sponsored actors from China, North Korea, and Russia are increasingly integrating generative AI to discover zero-day vulnerabilities, automate malware generation, and conduct large-scale disinformation campaigns. Read more
Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has reported the first observed instances of hackers using AI to discover zero-day vulnerabilities and generate exploit tools for large-scale attacks. The activity involved several notorious hacking groups collaborating to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) in open-source network management tools. Read more
At the 2026 CYBERSEC Taiwan conference, high-tech manufacturer Wistron revealed how its security operations center (SOC) successfully integrated generative AI to reduce incident analysis time from 15 minutes to 1 minute and overall response times from hours to under 10 minutes, achieving a 97.5% accuracy rate in threat detection. Read more
Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) has announced a new roadmap for financial cybersecurity resilience, focusing on the 'AI Vulnerability Storm' and the transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). The commission is set to release a formal PQC migration guide to prepare the industry for 'Y2Q' risks by 2029. Read more
Coupang Taiwan has announced a strategic partnership with HackerOne to launch the nation's first public bug bounty program, marking a significant shift toward open security validation following a 2025 data breach that impacted 200,000 Taiwanese customers. Read more
Broadcom has announced VCF 9.1, introducing a zero-trust architecture for private AI workloads, significant throughput gains for lateral threat detection, and expanded ransomware recovery options through new integration with CrowdStrike Falcon. Read more
BWH Hotels, operator of the Best Western brand, confirmed a security incident involving unauthorized access to a web application used for guest reservations. The breach spanned approximately six months, exposing personal guest information from October 2025 through April 2026. Read more
Microsoft’s May 12, 2026 Patch Tuesday release disclosed 137 CVEs across Microsoft products (down from 165 the prior month, per iThome). Including third‑party component fixes Microsoft shipped, the total reaches 265 vulnerabilities. iThome highlights 13 vulnerabilities Microsoft assessed as more likely to be targeted by attackers; most are elevation-of-privilege issues across Windows components, plus two Word remote code execution bugs. Four of the 13 are rated Critical, and the highest CVSS score called out is 9.1 for a Microsoft Single Sign-On (SSO) plugin used with Jira and Confluence. Read more
Security researchers at LayerX have identified a design flaw dubbed 'ClaudeBleed' in the Claude in Chrome extension. The vulnerability allows malicious extensions with zero permissions to inject commands and hijack the Claude AI agent, potentially leading to unauthorized data exfiltration and sensitive cross-site operations. Read more