Track East Asia cyber, AI, cloud, and infrastructure risk before it becomes an incident.
Check Point Research uncovered a global crypto-clipper campaign using paid news posts, fake GitHub/SourceForge accounts, AI-narrated YouTube tutorials, and VirusTotal comment manipulation to distribute Rust-based malware that steals cryptocurrency by replacing wallet addresses in the clipboard. Read more
FinRED is a new expert-guided benchmark framework for evaluating financial LLMs, designed to detect finance-specific risks like regulatory evasion and fraud by mapping global standards to threats and using real financial documents to generate realistic test prompts. It reduces critical false negatives in safety evaluations by over half and is deployed in South Korea’s Financial Security Institute sandbox for generative AI security testing. Read more
In Week 3 of June 2026, South Korea faced a multi-vector cyber threat landscape as Qilin ransomware struck a big data solution provider, Anubis ransomware targeted a semiconductor equipment parts manufacturer, and confidential defense industry documents appeared for sale on the dark web forum Spear Forums, highlighting coordinated risks to national technological and security assets. Read more
Researchers uncovered 15 malicious JetBrains plugins posing as AI coding assistants that exfiltrate API keys for OpenAI, DeepSeek, and other LLMs, alongside two Chrome extensions stealing AI chat conversations from major platforms, highlighting supply chain risks in developer tools and browser extensions. Read more
AhnLab identifies a campaign distributing malicious LNK files masquerading as personal information consent forms to execute fileless PowerShell scripts, establish persistence via Windows Task Scheduler, deploy info-stealers and backdoors, and use decoy documents to evade detection, with observed TTP overlaps to Kimsuky-like activity. Read more
A coordinated supply chain attack compromised 144 Mastra npm packages by hijacking a former contributor's account to inject a malicious dependency that steals cryptocurrency and establishes persistence, posing significant risks to AI development workflows and cloud infrastructure environments globally. Read more
Microsoft confirmed active development of a patch for CVE-2026-50656, a zero-day elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Defender that allows attackers to gain SYSTEM access via a race condition in the Malware Protection Engine, affecting fully patched Windows 10 and 11 systems despite real-time protection being enabled. Read more
ASEC's Ransom & Dark Web Issues Week 2, June 2026 report documents Black X ransomware targeting Korean and U.S. organizations, a data leak from a South Korean education platform on BreachForums by threat actor Hasan, and exposure of French government messaging data on PwnForums, highlighting cross-sector dark web activity. Read more
Oracle has released emergency mitigations for CVE-2026-35273, a critical unauthenticated remote code execution zero-day in PeopleSoft PeopleTools versions 8.61 and 8.62, actively exploited by the ShinyHunters extortion gang in data theft attacks targeting over 100 organizations, primarily in the U.S. education sector. Mandiant confirmed the exploitation chain involving staging servers, MeshCentral agents, and data exfiltration to ShinyHunters-linked infrastructure, with 68 percent of victims in higher education. Read more
TitanCA, a joint project by Singapore Management University and GovTech Singapore, uses a four-module LLM agent pipeline to discover zero-day vulnerabilities, yielding 118 CVEs from 203 confirmed findings in open-source software, demonstrating a practical approach to reducing SAST false positives through AI orchestration. Read more