Track East Asia cyber, AI, cloud, and infrastructure risk before it becomes an incident.
A new study by Kaspersky analyzing 231 million leaked passwords shows that 48% can be cracked in under a minute. Rapid advancements in consumer GPU hardware, specifically the shift to the NVIDIA RTX 5090, have dramatically reduced the time required to break simple hashes, rendering traditional eight-character passwords virtually useless against modern brute-force and AI-assisted attacks. 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
Security researchers have identified a new cloud-native malware framework, PCPJack, which specializes in credential theft across Docker, Kubernetes, and Redis environments. Uniquely, the framework actively removes tools associated with the TeamPCP (PCPcat) threat group, suggesting a possible internal rift or turf war over compromised cloud assets. Read more
SAP has released its May 2026 security updates, addressing 15 vulnerabilities including two critical flaws in S/4HANA and Commerce Cloud that could lead to unauthorized data access and remote code execution. 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
Microsoft has released significant updates for three core Sysinternals tools—ProcDump, Autoruns, and ZoomIt—enhancing forensic memory capture, startup persistence analysis, and technical presentation capabilities for IT professionals and security researchers. 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
Taiwan’s TWCERT/CC published a high-severity vulnerability notice for the D-Link DWM-222W Wi‑Fi 6 USB mobile network adapter/modem. The issue allows an unauthenticated attacker on the same network domain to bypass login attempt limits, enabling brute-force attempts that could lead to device control. D-Link firmware 1.02.00 and later is listed as the fix. 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
TWCERT/CC disclosed three vulnerabilities affecting WeiQiao Information’s “Single Sign-On and Electronic Directory Service System” (單一簽入暨電子目錄服務系統). Two medium-severity issues are open redirect (CVE-2026-3824) and reflected XSS (CVE-2026-3825), both described as exploitable by authenticated remote attackers via user interaction. A critical issue, CVE-2026-3826 (CVSS 9.8), is a local file inclusion flaw described as exploitable by an unauthenticated remote attacker and could enable server-side arbitrary code execution. TWCERT/CC recommends upgrading to IFTOP_P4_181 or later; versions before IFTOP_P4_181 are affected. Read more