Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Report Urges Indo-Pacific Cyber Shield Strategy Amid Increased Nation-State ThreatsA Center for a New American Security study found China and North Korea are accelerating cyberattacks, influence operations and infrastructure breaches across the Indo-Pacific, as researchers urge the U.S. to help develop a regional cyber shield, and deploy forward cyber teams.

Researchers Examined 7 LLMs to Determine How they Dealt with Flawed CodeLarge language models trained on flawed data tend to replicate those mistakes, researchers found. "In bug-prone tasks, the likelihood of LLMs generating correct code is nearly the same as generating buggy code," found researchers from institutions including the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Government Nurtures Homegrown Talent and Hack-for-Hire Ecosystem, Research FindsChina boasts many of the world's most talented zero-day vulnerability researchers as well as a strict cybersecurity law compelling individuals to assist the state, and the government doesn't appear to shy away from using both those facts to its advantage, a new research study finds.

Russia, Ukraine, China and US All Top 'First-Ever World Cybercrime Index'A new study published by researchers from the universities of Oxford and New South Wales ranks Russia at the top of a global list of cybercrime hot spots and says Ukraine, China, the United States, Nigeria and Romania are home to a majority of global cybercriminal activity.