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Cambodia covers cybersecurity and information-security developments connected to Cambodia, including incidents, policy, privacy, advisories, research, and news affecting organizations, public services, and digital systems in the area.
For practitioners, the tag provides geographic context for developments involving Cambodia's organizations, services, partners, and users. Individual articles provide the specific technologies, threats, sectors, and operational implications relevant to each development.
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the seizure of a cloud computing account put to use by subsidiaries of Cambodia-based corporate conglomerate HuiOne Group, as the Treasury unveiled fresh sanctions against nine individuals and 26 entities linked to Prince Group
Also: Cartier Heir Imprisoned, Believe Founder Benjamin Pasternak ArrestedThis week, North Korea hacks, Cartier heir jailed, Believe founder arrested, Cambodia scam network sanctioned. A U.S. Army soldier's insider bet, Litecoin, sentences in laundering and romance fraud cases, France probed crypto kidnapping. Tennessee banned crypto ATMs, Kelp DAO and Alex Mashinsky.
Also: Cambodia Moves to Combat Online Scam NetworksEvery week, ISMG rounds up cybersecurity incidents in digital assets. This week, Bithumb's recovery plan, Circle criticized, a new Cambodian law to combat online scam networks, Bitcoin Depot hack, panic after Stabble's alleged North Korea link and HypurrFi's domain hijack.
Also: EU Bans AI Tools, Notepad++ Secures Updater, Apple Patches iOS Zero-DayThis week, Cambodia shuttered 200 scam centers. EU Parliament banned AI tools. Canada Goose disputed a ShinyHunters leak. Notepad++ patched an updater flaw. Apple fixed a decades-old iOS zero-day. BeyondTrust and Dell patched critical flaws under active exploitation.
PLUS: Cambodia arrests alleged scam camp boss; Baidu spins out chip biz; Panasonic’s noodle shop plan; And more! Asia in Brief The governments of Malaysia and Indonesia have suspended access to social network X, on grounds that it allows users to produce sexual imagery without users’ consent.…
UN Says Southeast Asian Scam Centers Generate $41 Billion in Illicit Annual ProfitsSoutheast Asian scam centers tied to $41 billion in illicit annual profits gleaned from romance and investment scams, ongoing gambling, and holding some of the hundreds of thousands of victims trafficked to work at the centers to ransom, continue to fuel geopolitical conflict across the region.
US Attorney Jeanine Pirro Cites Trump Goal in Making Crypto 'Safe' for InvestorsThe U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia announced the launch of the Scam Center Strike Force, to dismantle criminal networks behind pig butchering scams. The initiative targets sophisticated transnational criminal organizations based in Southeast Asia including Cambodia, Laos and Burma.
After a particularly gruesome murder, South Korea issues "code black" travel ban for several regions in Cambodia, while other nations urge more raids.
Investigations found that the network operates scam centers in Cambodia, Myanmar and across Southeast Asia
Cambodian Firm Worked Directly With North Korea, Say US OfficialsThe U.S. and U.K. imposed sanctions on Cambodia’s Huione Group and 146 affiliates linked to the Prince Group TCO, citing human trafficking, forced labor and over $4 billion in laundered cybercrime proceeds tied to North Korean hacks and Western-targeted scams.
Firms cooperating with cybercrime syndicates in Burma and Cambodia face sanctions by the US government and enforcement actions by China, but the scams continue to grow.
Infosec issues spill into the real world and regional politics Analysis Thai and Cambodian tensions relating to issues including cybersecurity concerns boiled over into a kinetic skirmish at the border last week.…
Also: 5 Guilty Pleas in Cambodia-linked $36.9 Million ScamEvery week, ISMG rounds up cybersecurity incidents in digital assets. This week, charges against a crypto firm founder in a $530M sanctions evasion and money laundering case, guilty pleas in a $36.9M scam, an $8.3M exploit of Alex Lab, and Cetus Protocol relaunched after a $223M hack.
Five men from China, the United States, and Turkey pleaded guilty to their involvement in an international crime ring and laundering nearly $37 million stolen from U.S. victims in cryptocurrency investment scams carried out from Cambodia. [...]
More than half of attacks on Indian businesses come from outside the country, while 45% of those targeting consumers come from Cambodia, Myanmar, and Laos.
Mongolia, Taiwan, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Cambodia have been targeted by the China-nexus RedDelta threat actor to deliver a customized version of the PlugX backdoor between July 2023 and December 2024
Animoca Brands Co-Founder's Social Media HackedThis week, Cambodia introducing new crypto directive, a hacker compromising Animoca Brands co-founder's social media, FTX co-CEO having his sentence reduced by a year, IRS pushing new crypto tax reporting rules and the Blockchain Bandit moving funds after two years of inactivity.
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new PHP-based backdoor called Glutton that has been put to use in cyber attacks targeting China, the United States, Cambodia, Pakistan, and South Africa
It's North Korea versus Cambodia, with Windows default settings and sheer patience allowing the bad guys to avoid easy detection.
Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been observed delivering a previously undocumented backdoor and remote access trojan (RAT) called VeilShell as part of a campaign targeting Cambodia and likely other Southeast Asian countries