Cybersecurity

IBM, StarHub expand collaboration to advance quantum-safe readiness

U.S. technology firm IBM on Monday announced an expanded collaboration with Singapore-based communications and digital services provider StarHub to enhance the latter’s quantum-safe cybersecurity capabilities against emerging cryptographic threats posed by future quantum computing technologies.

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What to do when the insider threat is no longer human, but a machine

Managing insider risk in modern environments is less about adding controls and more about reducing unnecessary access. In cloud-first systems, exposure is constantly shaped by how environments are built and maintained. Organizations that recognize this will be better positioned to contain insider risk before it becomes an incident.

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Finding focus: A strategic approach to cybersecurity for SMBs in SEA

When complexity decreases, resilience follows. Incidents are contained faster, downtime is reduced, and teams regain the capacity to be proactive rather than permanently reactive. SMBs can explore how to enhance their security posture with guidance tailored specifically for their environment. With this knowledge, they can enhance their processes and build a…

Exaforce raises $125M Series B to expand AI-native security operations platform

Exaforce, a agentic security company, has raised $125 million in a Series B funding round to expand its AI-native security operations platform and grow its international presence.

AI drives 84 percent of breaches in Singapore as attackers outpace defenders

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been involved in 84 percent of reported security breaches in Singapore over the past 12 months, enabling attackers to operate with greater speed and scale than many organizations can defend against, a survey showed Wednesday.

VECT ransomware: Why paying won’t get your files back

Organizations with exposure to the recent TeamPCP supply-chain attacks, which targeted widely used developer tools including Trivy, KICS, LiteLLM, and Telnyx, should treat credential rotation as an immediate priority.

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We built identity systems for an internet that no longer exists

The tools to build fake identities are improving faster than the tools to detect them, and that gap is only going to widen. Every month that passes, the synthetic personas get more convincing, the scams get harder to spot, and the losses get larger.

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Enterprises rethink defense as cybercrime scales to industrial proportions

As cybercrime evolves into a regional industry, defensive strategies require matching coordination, intelligence sharing, and operational discipline. Success in 2026 won't belong to organizations with the most tools, but to those who truly understand attack patterns and execute with unwavering cybersecurity hygiene.

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The transitional decade: Why mythos is a problem for legacy code, not for cybersecurity vendors

Mythos's capabilities are real — Cybench and OpenBSD settle that. The harder problem is how the world gets through the window between a system built on the assumption that vulnerability discovery is expensive and a system in which it isn't, without cascading failures in exactly the infrastructure least able to be rewritten. 

Malaysia regulators team up to strengthen scams prevention and enforcement

The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) have on Friday agreed to further enhance cooperation in enforcement and strengthen efforts in mitigating and preventing scams.