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Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
From black hat hackers attempting to break into government computer systems, to white hat security experts working to crack and improve protections on popular internet browsers, cybersecurity affects us all. Every day hackers steal millions of pieces of personal data and, as former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed, sometimes it may be our own governments doing the snooping.
A worker inspects semiconductor chips at a plant in Ipoh, Malaysia. Photo: Reuters
Malaysia

Can ‘neutral’ Malaysia stay above the fray in the US-China tech rivalry?

Speaking at a tech event, Malaysia’s defence minister says the country is ‘non-aligned’ in ‘every domain’, including in cyberspace.

Malaysia

‘Fight fire with fire’: Southeast Asia urged to share data in war against scams

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Myanmar

China tried 3 times to talk crime families out of scam business in Myanmar: CCTV

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Crime in Hong Kong

Hongkongers lose HK$220 million to customer service scams in August

Scammers are taking real-time control of victims through direct calls or tricking them into installing malicious apps, police warn.

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Scammers have been making phone calls and posing as customer service staff from banks, logistics firms and telecoms companies. Photo: Getty Images
Artificial intelligence

Anthropic raises alarm over Chinese GLM-5.3 model’s elite hacking ability

The open-weight AI model almost matches Claude Mythos for cyber capabilities, but has far weaker safeguards, Anthropic says.

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India

What can Asia, Global South learn from India’s new digital payment fee?

The roll-out is a good test of whether the system can generate enough revenue to pay for its own maintenance and expansion, experts say.

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2026 Xi-Trump summits

Why China’s top AI pioneers are expected to miss this week’s Xi-Trump summit

Beijing has not officially announced details of the delegation, but the leaders of DeepSeek and Moonshot AI are absent from the reported list.

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President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump in Beijing on May 14. Photo: Kyodo
US-China relations

Opinion | Success of Xi-Trump summit lies in what happens afterwards

The real value of the Washington meeting between the presidents of the US and China is whether its understandings survive the next bilateral dispute.

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2026 Xi-Trump summits

US announces AI dialogue with China, launches Board of Trade

Key outcomes released after eight-hour marathon meeting in New York.

United States

Google says Gemini AI model breached real systems in security test

Asked to access a fictional firm with the same name as a real company, Gemini guessed a password and hacked into the real company’s website.

Google Gemini logos are displayed on a smartphone and computer screen. Photo: TNS
South Korea

South Korea wants free ‘AI for All’. Is society ready?

Seoul’s roll-out of free, unlimited AI is set to shake up classrooms, careers and crime – for better or worse.

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Illustration: Dennis Yip
2026 Xi-Trump summits

Scott Bessent confirms weekend meeting with He Lifeng days before Xi’s US visit

US Treasury Secretary to meet Chinese Vice Premier for final preparatory talks between two sides before key Trump-Xi summit in Washington.

Artificial intelligence

Video | China pushes back against US claims of AI being ‘too powerful’

Chinese researchers say a slowdown would protect established US AI firms while freezing latecomers out of the market.

Germany

German intelligence report warns of rising Chinese, Russian spy threat

A report by Germany’s counter-intelligence agency said some surveillance activities targeting military infrastructure can be linked to China.

The Russian flag flies on the roof of the Russian embassy in Berlin, Germany. Photo: dpa via AP
Crime in Hong Kong

Number of suspicious credit card transactions involving iPhones surges to 1,209

Apple spokesman says all current orders are being reviewed before processing as total amount involved rises to HK$25 million.

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Hong Kong police received more than 700 reports of unauthorised credit card transactions worth HK$14.7 million linked to pre-orders for Apple’s latest phone models. Photo: Sam Tsang
2026 Xi-Trump summits

Exclusive | AI fight shadows final preparations for Xi Jinping’s White House visit

Chinese side is said to view US requests as limiting both harmful outcomes from AI and Beijing’s ability to develop its own capabilities.

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Artificial intelligence

‘Freaked out’: why AI safety fears are spiking ahead of Xi-Trump summit

Experts fear Silicon Valley is hurtling towards a major cybersecurity incident. Meanwhile, US-China tensions are undercutting AI safety talks.

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US-China trade war

Anthropic claims Moonshot, DeepSeek secretly diverted user requests to Claude

AI giants accused of cloning American models by funnelling real Chinese user queries to them via network of intermediate platforms.

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The Anthropic report accuses Kimi model developer Moonshot of secretly showing users Claude model outputs and passing them off as Kimi’s, then using those exchanges to improve its own models. Illustration: Reuters
US-China relations

US sanctions Chinese-language Xinbi Guarantee marketplace over cyber scams

Washington also seizes Telegram channels and US$52 million in cryptocurrency linked to the platform’s alleged illicit operations.

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Taiwan

Taiwan sets up US-backed cyber unit to hunt hidden military threats

Taiwanese defence minister says exchanges with the US are ‘even more extensive than you might imagine’.

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Artificial intelligence

Reduced visibility into the ‘thinking’ of OpenAI’s new model sparks safety fears

The Hugging Face breach in July highlights the importance of being able to inspect what models are ‘thinking’, say analysts.

OpenAI said the written reasoning of its new Astra model was 'harder to monitor' compared with the previous generation released in July. Photo: Reuters
US-China relations

US urged to consider military strikes to stop China achieving AGI first

Former White House staffer calls for espionage and cyber options as Washington prepares for a potential Chinese breakthrough.

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The US and China are competing for global leadership in artificial intelligence as the technology rapidly advances. Photo: Shutterstock
Science

China-Singapore cybersecurity team says it hacked into latest Starlink terminal

Darknavy gains full administrative control over SpaceX’s user terminal allowing research into the system’s security programmes.

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Crime in Hong Kong

ICAC sets integrity standards for government computers to fight misuse

Independent Commission Against Corruption unveils standards after revealing procedures for government computer systems had loopholes.

US-China relations

US Congress seeks to identify foreign countries behind scam calls

Inquiry comes as US government reports tying much of the financial damage from scams to Chinese criminal networks based in Southeast Asia.

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US government reports have connected much of the financial damage from scam calls to Chinese criminal networks based in Southeast Asia. Photo: Shutterstock
US-China trade war

Congress advances new bill to give US edge in open-source AI race with China

Legislation to promote adoption of US open-source models while publicising the risks associated with using their Chinese counterparts.

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An influx of powerful new open-weight models, including Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, has helped China dominate the industry recently. Photo: Reuters
Crime in Hong Kong

Suspected cyberattack puts data of 33,054 customers of group-buying app at risk

Privacy watchdog receives report of data breach from TVB-owned Neigbuy, while police learn of six cases of scammers posing as staff.

Crime in Hong Kong

Hong Kong WhatsApp hijacking scams surge 170% to nearly 2,000 cases

Police say victims lost HK$146 million in first seven months of 2026, with some suffering individual losses exceeding HK$10 million.

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